- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1950.135
- Title
- Mystical Journey
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- c. 1650
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Isfahan
- Period
- Safavid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/4648
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black ink and opaque watercolor, bordered with gold on off-white paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 25.2 cm (4 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Grace Nichols Strong, Francis H. Burr and Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Funds
- Accession Year
- 1950
- Object Number
- 1950.135
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Anthony Welch, Shah 'Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1973), pp. 92-93, repro.
Bernard Lewis, Islam and the Arab World: Faith, People, Culture, Random House (New York, 1976), p. 262
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 10, 98-99, no. 37, ill.
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), p. 76, fig. 80
Raphael Jospe, Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Open University of Israel (Raanana, Israel, 2006), p. 258, fig. 2
Ladan Akbarnia and Chanchal Dadlani, The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), cover (detail) and fig. 3
- Exhibition History
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The Heavenly Court: Persian Poetry and Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/1985 - 03/31/1985
Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimages, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/1991 - 06/09/1991
The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
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
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