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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.34
Title
Folio 34 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three sheets with sketches of people and animals (recto); Lion attacking a cow, framed by colored paper borders (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98488

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Top: black ink over graphite on beige wove paper; Middle: red ink over graphite on off-white wove paper; Bottom: black ink over black counterproof on off-white wove paper (recto); Brown and gray inks on off-white wove paper (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet at top: 7 x 9.8 cm; sheet at middle: 9.5 x 7 cm; sheet at bottom: 7.7 x 10.5 cm
Verso: sheet to white border: 7.5 x 6.2 cm

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.34
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), p. 21, fig. 8; pp. 23, 27-28, 35-37, 113; folios 34a-b

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