1960.161.4: Folio 4 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Dancer with finger-cymbals (recto); Embracing couple approached by a woman (verso)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1960.161.4

Title

Folio 4 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Dancer with finger-cymbals (recto); Embracing couple approached by a woman (verso)

Classification

Albums

Work Type

album folio

Date

19th century

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/98383

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Black ink and black counterproof on off-white modern laid paper, with gold and ink margin lines; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (verso)

Dimensions

Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 20.7 x 12.3 cm
Verso: sheet: 15.6 x 13.7 cm

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Recto: watermark: T or cross in decorative border (partial)
• watermark: Verso: watermark: words AL MAS (partial)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund

Accession Year

1960

Object Number

1960.161.4

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. 27, 56, 80-82, 93-94, ill.; p. 110; folios 4a-b

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