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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.24
Title
Folio 24 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Mir Fenderesky and Shaykh Bistam (recto); Two drawings of women: dancer; cupbearer (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98164

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red ink over graphite on beige wove paper; burnished (recto); Top: red and red-brown inks over graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Bottom: red-brown ink over graphite on off-white wove paper (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 19.7 x 12 cm
Verso: sheet at top: 12.7 x 8.9 cm; sheet at bottom: 13.2 x 8.5 cm

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.24
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), p. 20, fig. 6; p. 25, fig. 17; pp. 48, 84, 112; folios 24a-b

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