Harvard Art Museums > 1999.299: Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58) in Old Age Albums Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58) in Old Age (Signed by Hashim) , 1999.299,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 16, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/216936. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.299 People Signed by Hashim, Indian Title Shah Jahan (r. 1628-58) in Old Age Classification Albums Work Type album folio Date c. 1650 Places Creation Place: South Asia, India Period Mughal period Culture Mughal Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/216936 Physical Descriptions Medium Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Dimensions 38 x 26 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: Signed by Hashim inscription: "work of Hashim" Provenance Recorded Ownership History Louis Cartier Collection, Paris, (by 1958), sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., Warren, NH (1958-1999), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr. Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.299 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Stuart Cary Welch, "Mughal and Deccani Miniature Paintings From a Private Collection", Ars Orientalis; The Arts of Islam and the East, Freer Gallery of Art / Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1963), Vol. 5, 221 - 233, fig. 18, pl. 12 Milo Cleveland Beach and Stuart Cary Welch, The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600-1660, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1978), Page 127-128, 129/Figure 45 Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., pp. 298-299, no. 23 Exhibition History Infancy to Old Age: A Gallery of Indians, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/27/1993 - 04/25/1993 Shadows of God On Earth: Arts of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/1997 - 08/31/1997 A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/08/2000 - 09/03/2000 The Way I Remember Them: Paintings by Nusra Latif Qureshi, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 02/20/2004 - 04/25/2004 The Portrait, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2004 - 01/09/2005 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
