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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.289
People
Sadiqi Beg, Persian
Title
Figures from the Annunciation (painting, recto; calligraphy, verso)
Classification
Paintings with Calligraphy
Work Type
painting with calligraphy
Date
c. 1590
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Yazd
Period
Safavid period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217206

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, opaque watercolor on off-white paper
Dimensions
31 x 20.8 cm (12 3/16 x 8 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.289
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gauvin Alexander Bailey, "In the Manner of the Frankish Masters: A Safavid Drawing and its Flemish Inspiration", Oriental Art (Winter 1994 - Winter 1995), vol. XL, no. 4
  • 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. 68-71, no. 13
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 80
  • Massumeh Farhad and Sana Mirza, ed., Global Lives of Objects: Celebrating 100 Years of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 2023), pp. 141-142, fig. 1

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/06/2022

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project
  • Collection Highlights

Verification Level

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