1960.161.29: Folio 29 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: woman nursing child; old woman; amorous couple (recto); Two drawings mounted within colored paper borders: Shaykh San`an and the Christian maiden; Dervishes gathered by a stream (verso)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.161.29
- Title
- Folio 29 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets: woman nursing child; old woman; amorous couple (recto); Two drawings mounted within colored paper borders: Shaykh San`an and the Christian maiden; Dervishes gathered by a stream (verso)
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/98486
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Top: brown ink over traces of graphite on beige wove paper, burnished; Middle: brown ink over traces of graphite on off-white paper; pricked; Bottom: brown ink on off white wove paper; Bottom verso: red and brown ink; Bottom verso: red and brown ink (recto) Right: brown ink over graphite on off-white laid (?) paper; pricked; Left: black ink with traces of black chalk on beige wove paper; rubbed with red chalk (verso)
- Dimensions
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Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet at top: 5.5 x 4.7 cm; sheet at middle: 9 x 7 cm; sheet at bottom: 8 x 6.2 cm
Verso: sheets inside border: 13.1 x 9.3 cm
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.161.29
- 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. 21-22, fig.11; pp. 46, 48, 81, 112-113; folios 29a-b
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