album; drawing

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Object Type: album; drawing
Museum number: 1920,0917,0.281.1
Description: Portrait of a young man reading a book; single-page drawing on a detached album folio. The youth is standing against a white flowering tree holding a book with his left hand outstretched. Birds flit about and perch on the tree. Ink, gold and opaque watercolours on paper.
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Production date: 1600 (circa)
Production place: Made in: India (pre-1947)
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Dimensions: Height: 15.30 centimetres (drawing); Width: 8.90 centimetres (drawing)
Bibliographic references: Pinder-Wilson 1976 / Paintings from the Muslim courts of India: an exhibition held in the Prints & Drawings Gallery, British Museum (cat.101, p.66); Rogers 1993 / Mughal Miniatures (Eastern Art) (p. 61, fig 36); Blochet 1929 / Musulman painting, XIIth-XVIIth century (fig CXCI); Binyon 1925 / Asiatic art in the British Museum (sculpture and painting) (fig LIV); Rogers 1983a / Islamic Art and Design, 1500-1700 (67)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2005 27 Oct-2006 31 Jan, Haengso Museum, Keimyung University, Daegu, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2005 25 Jul-8 Oct, Busan Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures 2005 11 Apr-10 Jul, Seoul Arts Centre, Treasures of the World's Cultures 1976 13 Apr-11 Jul, BM, 'Paintings from the Muslim Courts of India'
Subjects: book/newspaper; bird; tree/bush; reading/writing
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Acquisition date: 1920
Acquisition notes: Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
Department: Middle East
Registration number: 1920,0917,0.281.1
Conservation: Treatment: 15 Feb 2005; Treatment: 08 May 2007; Treatment: 15 May 2007; Treatment: 07 Nov 2003; Treatment: 26 Jun 2003

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