1960.60: Romantic Verses, folio from an album made for Shah Jahan
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.60
- Title
- Romantic Verses, folio from an album made for Shah Jahan
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Page from an Album Made for the Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan with Calligraphy and Illuminated Border
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- 17th century
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India
- Period
- Mughal period
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216185
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.9 x 24.5 cm (14 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription:
With his amorous glance he sent no scent to the world
that did not send a caravan of sorrow where he went,
Since his forelock brought dusk to the day of the world,
from the moon of his cheek to the earth no light was sent.
From the hand of the east wind, the scent from that heart-ravishing lock …
From a ghazal in the Divan of Jalal Azad (14th-century Persian poet from Yazd, also lived in Shiraz, contemporary of Hafiz and Khwaju Kirmani)
https://ganjoor.net/jalal/divanj/ghazaliyat/sh61
(Verses translated by Bruce Fudge and Zeynep Yürekli; source identified by Janet O’Brien.)
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inscription:
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.60
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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 147, 233
Exhibition History
- Birds, Beasts and Calligraphies, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/11/1981 - 09/29/1981
- Sewn Together With Peace of Mind, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/08/1997
- 32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/14/2015 - 11/03/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/28/2024 - 04/28/2025
Verification Level
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