1961.57: A Man and a Lion in a Rocky Landscape (painting, recto; calligraphy, verso), folio from an album

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1961.57

People

Unknown Artist

Title

A Man and a Lion in a Rocky Landscape (painting, recto; calligraphy, verso), folio from an album

Classification

Albums

Work Type

album folio

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Qazvin

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/216194

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions

31 x 20.9 cm (12 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Louise Haskell Daly and Alpheus Hyatt Funds, Formerly in the collection of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.

Accession Year

1961

Object Number

1961.57

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Stuart Cary Welch, Pictures from the Hindu and Muslim Worlds, Apollo (May 1978), Vol. 107, pp. 68-73, pp. 71-72, fig. 3
• Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 9, 11, 51, 66-67, no. 21, ill.
• Eleanor Sims, Boris I. Marshak, and Ernst Grube, Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven; London, 2002), pp. 228-229, fig. 144

Exhibition History

• Early Safavid Painting 1501 - 1576, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/21/1987 - 04/12/1987
• Sewn Together With Peace of Mind, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/08/1997

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