1936.28: Sufis by a Mountain Spring

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.28

Title

Sufis by a Mountain Spring

Classification

Manuscripts

Work Type

manuscript folio

Date

c. 1590

Places

Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Isfahan

Period

Safavid period

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/216957

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper

Dimensions

sight: 24.2 x 14.7 cm (9 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Sarah C. Sears Collection

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.28

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• F.R. Martin, The Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia, India and Turkey, from the 8th to the 18th century, B. Quaritch (London, England, 1912), pl. 165
• Eric Schroeder, Persian Miniatures in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), pp. 141-142, fig. 25
• Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), p. 117, no. 97
• John Renard, Historical Dictionary of Sufism, Scarecrow Press (Maryland, 2005), fig. 10

Exhibition History

• Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimages, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/1991 - 06/09/1991
• 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/2023 - 10/18/2023

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