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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.541.1
Title
Sprig of Rose Blossoms
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Flower-Full Blown Rose
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
first half of 19th century
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
Period
Qajar period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216943

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on oiled (?) paper
Dimensions
13 x 11.8 cm (5 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., Warner, New Hampshire (by 1983-2008), by inheritance; to Edith I. Welch, Warner, New Hampshire (2008-2011), gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2011.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.541.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
On this folio there is a drawing that depicts a spray of roses—one full blossom and two buds. Rose blossoms were an enduringly popular theme in Iranian art from the late Safavid through Qajar periods. The botanical details and enhanced shading in this drawing recall floral renderings in European still-life paintings. This rose drawing is
composed of two pieces of paper pasted together, and it had been backed with a third piece of paper (now removed, see Acc.# 728.1983.2).

Publication History

  • Stuart Cary Welch and Kim Masteller, From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2004), pp. 74-77, no. 15

Exhibition History

  • Islamic Art: Drawings, Calligraphies and Objects, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/29/1983 - 09/25/1983
  • The Heavenly Court: Persian Poetry and Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/1985 - 03/31/1985
  • Indian and Persian Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/25/1987 - 06/21/1987
  • Precisely to the Point, Daggers and Drawings from Persia and India: 15th-19th century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/30/1992 - 07/26/1992
  • Earthly Paradise: Gardens in Islamic Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/08/1993 - 08/22/1993
  • Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part II, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/26/1994 - 03/05/1995
  • From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from SCWelch, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/2005 - 06/02/2005

Verification Level

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