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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.161.28
Title
Folio 28 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Domestic scene with women and child (recto); Three sheets: female musician playing bowed instrument; embracing couple; man hawking on horseback (verso)
Classification
Albums
Work Type
album folio
Date
19th century
Culture
Persian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/98506

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Green and red inks and graphite on off-white wove paper (recto); Top: red ink with touches of brown ink and graphite on off-white laid paper; pricked and verso rubbed with charcoal; Middle: graphite on blue wove paper; Bottom: black ink and black wash over graphite on off-white laid paper, pricked (verso)
Dimensions
Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm
Recto: sheet: 17.9 x 12 cm
Verso: sheet at top: 6.0 x 4.0 cm; sheet at middle: 9.1 x 7.8 cm; sheet at bottom: 6.4 x 4.2 cm

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.161.28
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. 21-22, fig. 11; pp. 26, 33, 81, 112; folios 28a-b

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