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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.53
Title
Folio 53 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Figures in porticoes surrounding fruit trees (recto); Five drawings of flowers framed by a colored paper border (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98492

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black chalk, blue colored pencil with touches of graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked (recto); Brown ink with touches of pink ink on off-white wove papers (verso); Note: drawings mounted overall with colored paper borders (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 22 x 11.5 cm
Verso: area inside borders: 13 x 8 cm; yellow border: 17.5 x 10.4 cm
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Recto: inscription: "Muhammad Shah Qajar," possibly a seal

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.53
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. 21-23, fig. 10; pp. 35, 115; folios 53a-b

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