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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.15
Title
Folio 15 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: tailor and man with washboard (recto); Blank page (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98163

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Left: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso pounced or rubbed with red chalk; Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso pounced or rubbed with red chalk (recto)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet at left: 15.2 x 10.3 cm; sheet at right: 15.2 x 11 cm
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Recto: sheet at left: watermark: letters AL M (partial)
  • watermark: Recto: sheet at right: watermark: animal in shield and letter M (partial)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.15
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Roxburgh, ed., An Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 23, 32, 50-52, 70, 93, 95, ill.; p. 111; folios 15a-b

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Verification Level

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