album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.11.41
- Title
- Series: Indian Drawings
- Description
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Portrait of Mír Mauláná Jalál al-Dín; single-page drawing mounted in an album. Portrait Mír Mauláná Jalál al-Dín facing right, wearing a large turban and robe against a hilly background with trees. Album contains 60 Indian drawings and paintings.
Ink on paper. Album bound in black leather with pages of European paper, watermarked 1799.
- Production date
- 18thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.30 centimetres (drawing)
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Height: 34 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 32.70 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 2.90 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 13.50 centimetres (drawing)
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Width: 22 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 19.60 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Another possible depiction of Mír Mauláná Jalál al-Dín appears in the album, 1920,0917,0.11.56. A third portrait in the BM collection is 1936,0111,0.24.
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See 1920,0917,0.11 .1-.62 for all folios included in this album.
See 1920,0917,0.11.1 for spine and front matter inscriptions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1920,0917,0.11.41
