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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.52
Title
Folio 52 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: King on horseback embraced by angel (recto); Bust portrait of a young woman, probably Pourandokht, with tiara and headscarves (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98172

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black chalk and blue colored pencil on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Watercolor, silver and gold over graphite on off-white modern laid paper (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 22.5 x 13.5 cm
Verso: sheet: 10 x 8.8 cm
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Verso: watermark: crown and letters ON (partial)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.52
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, 57, 93, 98, ill.; p. 115; folios 52a-b

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