- Identification and Creation
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- 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
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- 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
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- watermark: Recto: watermark: eagle in shield and letters GM
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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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
- Exhibition History
- Related Works
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