1960.161.53: 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)

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

Permissions

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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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