AlbumsPersian19th century

Folio 30 from an Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran: Three sheets: Pen box design with perspectival architectural landscape divided by medallions (top), Bahram Gur visiting a princess (center), Pen box design with audience scene divided by medallions (bottom) (recto); Blank page (verso)

1830-1850

Classification

Albums

Medium

Left: red ink on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk; Middle: brown ink on off-white wove paper; Middle verso: brown ink and watercolor, Right: red and blue-black inks on off-white modern laid paper; pricked and rubbed with red chalk (recto)

Culture

Persian

Period

Qajar period

Century

19th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art

Dimensions

Folio: 32.5 x 22 cm Recto: sheet at left: 22.3 x 3 cm; sheet at middle: 10.9 x 8.2 cm; sheet at right: 23.5 x 3 cm

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