1919.129: Peacock (painting, verso); Bird (painting, recto), illustrated folio from Nuzhatnamah-i Alai of Shahmardan ibn Abi al-Khayr
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1919.129
- Title
- Peacock (painting, verso); Bird (painting, recto), illustrated folio from Nuzhatnamah-i Alai of Shahmardan ibn Abi al-Khayr
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- 16th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Qazvin?
- Period
- Safavid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/170142
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- folio: 25.15 x 16 cm (9 7/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Hervey E. Wetzel
- Accession Year
- 1919
- Object Number
- 1919.129
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Georges Marteau and Henri Vever, Miniatures persanes; tirées des collections de MM. Henry d'Allemagne, Claude Anet, Henri Aubry...et exposées au Musée des arts décoratifs, juin -- octobre 1912., exh. cat., Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie (Paris, 1913), vol. 1, no. 71, pl. LIXv
- Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), p. 117, no. 96
Verification Level
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