1960.117.246: Folio 246 (text, recto and verso), from a manuscript of the Divan of Anvari
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.117.246
- People
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Attributed to Nanha, Indian
- Title
- Folio 246 (text, recto and verso), from a manuscript of the Divan of Anvari
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: Divan of Anvari
Alternate Title: "Servants Preparing Food for a Picnic"; Folio 246 from a Divan of Anwari, copied for Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) - Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- 1588
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, Pakistan, Punjab, Lahore
- Period
- Mughal period
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216060
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- folio: 13.8 x 8 cm (5 7/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.117.246
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch, Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar: a Divan of Auhaduddin Anvari, copied for the Mughal emperor Jalaluddin Akbar (r. 1556-1605) at Lahore in A.H. 996 A.D. 1588 now in the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1983), page 105-107/figure 9
- 40 Years On... Donations by John Goelet: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, Miniatures and Calligraphy, Tankas and Mandala, M. T. Train and Scala Books (New York, NY, 2000), page 189, 243
Exhibition History
- Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/07/1984 - 03/28/1984
- The Enlightened Eye: Gifts from John Goelet, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/12/2000 - 05/07/2000
- 32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/08/2017 - 04/19/2018
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