1960.161: Album of Drawings and Paintings

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1960.161

Title

Album of Drawings and Paintings

Classification

Albums

Work Type

album

Date

19th century

Period

Qajar period

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311885

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Drawings; ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions

33.3 x 22.8 x 5 cm (13 1/8 x 9 x 1 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sold; [through Walter Schatzki (by 1960)]; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund

Accession Year

1960

Object Number

1960.161

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David Roxburgh, ed., An Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), Bindings: pp. 19, 110; figs. 3-4
• David Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams, ed., Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 134-139, cats. 10-21

Exhibition History

• Islamic Art From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1974
• The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/18/2006 - 07/23/2006

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