1960.161.15: Folio 15 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two drawings of workmen: tailor and man with washboard (recto); Blank page (verso)

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

Permissions

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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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