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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.10
Title
Folio 10 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Hero on horseback fighting a dragon (recto); Couple entertained on a terrace by musicians and dancers (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
1820-1860
Period
Qajar period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98146

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on green- blue Eastern paper; pricked (recto); Black counterproof on off-white modern laid paper; with gold and ink margin lines, pricked and selectively pounced with red chalk (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 29.5 x 21.3 cm
Verso: sheet: 24 x 16.4 cm
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Recto: watermark: eagle in shield and letters GM

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.10
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Penley Knipe, The Papers in the Harvard Qajar Album, An Album of Artist’s Drawings from Qajar Iran, ed. David Roxburgh, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015), Pages 55-59, Figure 2, Page 56
  • David Roxburgh, ed., An Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 23, 27, 55-57, fig. 2; pp. 81, 93-94, ill.; pp. 110-111; folios; 10a-b
  • David Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams, ed., Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 40-41, fig. 30; pp. 136-137, cat. 15
  • Salima Hellal, ed., Les Arts de L'Islam: Au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, exh. cat., Éditions Snoeck (Lyon, 2023), p. 502, fig. 119

Exhibition History

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Verification Level

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