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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.33
Title
Folio 33 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Portrait of a woman (recto); Two drawings of felines framed by colored paper borders (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98441

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Watercolor and black ink on off-white paper (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 23.7 x 17.2 cm
Verso: sheet inside border: 10.8 x 5.2 cm

Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Persian "Yā javād es-Sālihīn” or “Oh munificent ones who do good deeds"
  • inscription: Bottom center: "Laku" (?) in Perso-Arabic script (verso)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.33
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. 23, 26, 33, fig. 2; pp. 35-38, 113; folios 33a-b

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