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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.32
Title
Folio 32 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Wedding procession (left half) (recto); Blank page (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98440

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red-brown ink over graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet inclusive of both halves: 22 x 40.5 cm
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: running stag




    beta radiographs exist for "FP" and "deer" watermarks. see beta nos. 648 and 649
  • countermark: FP




    beta radiographs exist for "FP" and "deer" watermarks. see beta nos. 648 and 649
  • inscription: words on verso of sheet appears to be in graphite, possibly German "Brautigam" (bridgroom) and "Braut" (bride)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.32
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. 18, 23, 57, 93, 97, ill.; p. 113; folios 32a-b

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