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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.7
Title
Folio 7 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Embracing couple on terrace, attended by servants, dancers, and musicians (recto); Standing woman with headscarf (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
1820-1860
Period
Qajar period
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98355

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black counterproof on off-white modern laid paper, with gold and ink margin lines, pricked and selectively pounced with red chalk (recto); Red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with red chalk (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 20.2 x 12.7 cm
Verso: sheet: 18 x 12 cm

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.7
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Roxburgh, ed., An Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 58, 81, 110; folios 6a-b
  • David Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams, ed., Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 40-41, fig. 29; pp. 136-137, cat. 13

Exhibition History

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