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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.30
Title
Folio 30 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Three sheets: Pen box design with perspectival architectural landscape divided by medallions (top), Bahram Gur visiting a princess (center), Pen box design with audience scene divided by medallions (bottom) (recto); Blank page (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
1830-1850
Period
Qajar period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98487

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Left: red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Middle: brown ink on off-white wove paper; Middle verso: brown ink and watercolor, Right: red and blue-black inks on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet at left: 22.3 x 3 cm; sheet at middle: 10.9 x 8.2 cm; sheet at right: 23.5 x 3 cm

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.30
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. 64, 84, 87, 113; folios 30a-b
  • David Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams, ed., Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 136-137, cat. 18

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