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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
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
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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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