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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.216.41
Title
Fox Disguised as a Dervish (painting, verso; text, recto of folio 41), illustrated folio from the Rawda al-Ushshaq (Garden of Lovers) of Arifi
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
c. 1560
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
Period
Ottoman period
Culture
Ottoman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98516

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
25.1 × 17.1 cm (9 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.216.41
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Serpil Bagci, Filiz Cagman, Gunsel Renda, and Zeren Tanindi, Ottoman Painting (Istanbul, 2010), pp.110-111, figs. 71-72.
  • Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, A Lesser-known Illustrated Manuscript of the Ottoman Court Historian Ārif: the Rawża al-‘Uššāq (The Garden of Lovers) of the Harvard Art Museums, Proceedings, 15th International Congress of Turkish Art, ed. Michele Bernardini and Alessandro Taddei (Ankara, 2018), 737-748, p. 748, fig. 8
  • Mika Natif, Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (Leiden, 2018), fig. 5

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation: 3) Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/06/2009 - 01/03/2010

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