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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.287
People
Unknown Artist
Title
Arabesque with Dragon and Parrot
Classification
Albums
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1410
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Western Iran
Period
Turkman period
Culture
Turkmen
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217591

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and opaque watercolor on off-white paper: pricked (dragon only)
Dimensions
22.2 x 34.7 cm (8 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.287
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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. 38-39, no. 1
  • Ladan Akbarnia and Chanchal Dadlani, The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), fig. 10

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part I, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/15/1994 - 12/11/1994
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/08/2000 - 09/03/2000
  • 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
  • The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/18/2006 - 07/23/2006

Verification Level

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