1960.161.33: Folio 33 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Portrait of a woman (recto); Two drawings of felines framed by colored paper borders (verso)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.161.33
- Title
- Folio 33 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Portrait of a woman (recto); Two drawings of felines framed by colored paper borders (verso)
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/98441
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Watercolor and black ink on off-white paper (verso)
- Dimensions
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Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 23.7 x 17.2 cm
Verso: sheet inside border: 10.8 x 5.2 cm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Persian "Yā javād es-Sālihīn” or “Oh munificent ones who do good deeds"
- inscription: Bottom center: "Laku" (?) in Perso-Arabic script (verso)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.161.33
- 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. 23, 26, 33, fig. 2; pp. 35-38, 113; folios 33a-b
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