painting; album (detached folio)

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painting; album(detached folio)

Object Type: painting; album (detached folio)
Museum number: 1920,0917,0.298.3
Description: Seated page; single-page painting mounted on a detached album folio. A young page sits while reading text from a safina, or album. A Persian inscription fills most the upper righthand corner as well as the upper left. Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper.
Producer name: Made by: Riza-yi 'Abbasi; After: Ustád Muḥammad
School/style
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1625-1626 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Isfahan (town)
Materials: paper; gold
Technique: painted; gilded
Dimensions: Height: 14.50 centimetres (image); Height: 21.90 centimetres (page); Width: 8 centimetres (image); Width: 14.70 centimetres (page)
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Canby 1993 / Persian Painting (pp.99-101, fig. 66); Canby 1999 / The Golden Age of Persian Art 1501-1722 (107, fig. 95); Canby 2009 / Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran (13, p.52); Robinson F 2007a / The Mughal Emperors and the Islamic Dynasties of India, Iran and Central Asia (p.193); Parkinson 2013 / A little gay history. Desire and diversity across the world (pp. 72-3); Akbarnia et al 2018 / The Islamic World: a History in Objects (p.234-235, fig.2)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2009 19 Feb-14 Jun, BM, Round Reading Room, 'Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran'
Subjects: book/newspaper; reading/writing
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1920
Acquisition notes: Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
Department: Middle East
Registration number: 1920,0917,0.298.3
Conservation: Treatment: 24 Apr 2009; Treatment: 05 Nov 2008; Temporary mount: 04 Oct 2018; Treatment: 16 Jul 2018; Remount and inlay: 20 Sep 2019

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