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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.43
Title
Folio 43 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Two sheets: feline; quails (recto); Two drawings: woman with fan; two women in European dress (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98169

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Top: watercolor on blue Eastern paper, burnished (recto); Brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white wove paper (verso); Bottom: watercolor and graphite on wove paper (recto); Black counterproof on off-white wove paper (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet at top: 5.3 x 4.8 cm; sheet at bottom: 8 x 6.4 cm
Verso: sheet at top: 8 x 5.7 cm; sheet at bottom: 16 x 13 cm

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.43
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. 37, fig. 4; pp. 42, 57, 70, 114; folios 43a-b

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