1960.117.243: Heavenly Joys Come to Earth (painting, recto; text, verso), folio 243 from a manuscript of the Divan of Anvari
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.117.243
- People
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Attributed to Khem Karan, Indian
- Title
- Heavenly Joys Come to Earth (painting, recto; text, verso), folio 243 from a manuscript of the Divan of Anvari
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Divan of Anvari
- 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/216287
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- folio: 14 x 8 cm (5 1/2 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
- 1960.117.243
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Stuart Cary Welch, The Art of Mughal India: Painting & Precious Objects, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1963), p. 162, no. 4B, pl. 4B
- Anis Farooqi, Art of India and Persia, B. R. Publishing (New Delhi, 1979), p. 40, plate 51
- 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 101-103/figure 8
- Samina Quraeshi, Lahore: The City Within, Concept Media Pte Ltd (Singapore, 1988), page 43
- Bonnie Wade, "The Meeting of Musical Cultures in the 16th-century Court of the Mughal Akbar", The World of Music, Heinrichshofen Books (Berlin, Germany, 1990), vol. XXXII, no. 2, page 12/figure 4
- Peggy Roalf, Looking At Paintings: Musicians, Hyperion Books for Children (New York, NY, 1993), page 12-13
- Gloria Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, Volume 4: The Age of the Baroque and the European Enlightenment, Brown & Benchmark Publishers (Madison, WI, 1995), page 88/figure 23.21
- 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 188, 243
Exhibition History
- Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/07/1984 - 03/28/1984
- The Music Room, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/22/1984 - 11/11/1984
- The Enlightened Eye: Gifts from John Goelet, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/12/2000 - 05/07/2000
- Where Traditions Meet: Painting in India from the 15th-17th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/05/2003 - 12/07/2003
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