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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.41
Title
Folio 41 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Four sheets: Pen box design with reclining females and attendants in landscape (top), Portrait bust of Muhammad Shah Qajar (center), European woman with bouquet and shawl (center), Pen box design with reclining females and attendants in landscape, divided by medallions (bottom) (recto); The Binding of Isaac (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
1780-1860
Period
Qajar period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98490

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Left: Brown counterproof, brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Top middle: graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Bottom middle: black counterproof on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Right: Black counterproof, red ink and watercolor on laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Brown ink on brown laid paper, oiled for transparency (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet at left: 21.7 x 3.6 cm; sheet at top: 9 x 6.5 cm; sheet at bottom: 7.5 x 6.9 cm; sheet at right: 23.8 x 4.2 cm
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Recto: sheet at right: watermark: horse and eagle, letters GM (partial)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.41
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Massumeh Farhad and Mary McWilliams, ed., A Collector’s Passion: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar and Persian Lacquer, Harvard Art Museums and Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Cambridge, MA/Washington, D.C., 2017), pp. 33-34, fig. 11
  • David Roxburgh, ed., An Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 26, 45, 57, 62, 70, 72, 74-76, 88, 93, 97, ill.; p. 114; folios 41a-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. 35-37, fig. 21; pp. 138-139, cat. 19

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