1960.161.17: Folio 17 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three drawings: man and peacock; gathering of men on a terrace; woman and rabbit (recto) Two drawings: Shirin on horseback visits Farhad at Mt. Bisutun; Bahram Gur succeeds at Azada's shooting challenges (verso)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.161.17
- Title
- Folio 17 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Three drawings: man and peacock; gathering of men on a terrace; woman and rabbit (recto) Two drawings: Shirin on horseback visits Farhad at Mt. Bisutun; Bahram Gur succeeds at Azada's shooting challenges (verso)
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/98502
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Left: black counterproof on off-white laid paper; Center: black counterproof, colored inks with touches of graphite on off-white paper; pricked; Right: black counterproof and light brown ink on laid paper; pricked and pounced with red chalk, verso rubbed with red chalk and black chalk (?) (recto); Red ink and graphite on off-white blue-lined wove paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (verso)
- Dimensions
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Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet at left: 16.9 x 4 cm; sheet at center: 22 x 10.7 cm; sheet at right: 16 x 3.7 cm
Verso: sheet at top: 10.3 x 13 cm; sheet at bottom: 9.6 x 12.2 cm
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.161.17
- 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. 23, 57, 63-64; p. 111; folios 17a-b
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Verification Level
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