1960.161.18: Folio 18 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Two drawings: The meeting of Shams-i Tabrizi and Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi (top), Shaykh San`an and the Christian Maiden (bottom) (recto); Zulaykha's maids cut themselves, overcome by Yusuf's beauty (verso)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.161.18
- Title
- Folio 18 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Two drawings: The meeting of Shams-i Tabrizi and Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi (top), Shaykh San`an and the Christian Maiden (bottom) (recto); Zulaykha's maids cut themselves, overcome by Yusuf's beauty (verso)
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- 1850-1900
- Period
- Qajar period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/98503
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper; pricked, edges and verso rubbed with red chalk (recto); Red and brown inks and graphite on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (verso)
- Dimensions
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Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet at top: 10.2 x 13.5 cm; sheet at bottom: 9.9 x 12.5 cm
Verso: sheet: 11 x 15.7 cm
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: Verso: watermark: eagle in shield (partial)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.161.18
- 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. 18, 23, 45, 63-64, 85, 93, 96, ill.; p. 111; folios 18a-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. 136-137, cat. 16
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