drawing(tinted)
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.302
- Description
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Picnic in the mountains; single-page tinted drawing on a detached album folio.
Side A (recto): This recreational drawing depicts a picnic in the mountains with musicians amongst trees. Thirteen men total. Some details seem a later addition. No text.
Side B (verso): Calligraphy.
Ink and opaque watercolour on paper.
- Production date
- 16thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 34.70 centimetres (calligraphy)
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Height: 22.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 22.30 centimetres (painting)
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Height: 41.50 centimetres (sheet)
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Width: 17.80 centimetres (calligraphy)
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Width: 14.70 centimetres (image)
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Width: 14.40 centimetres (painting)
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Width: 26.10 centimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The leaves of the trees by the stream have changed from bright to olive green and have begun to 'burn' the paper as a result of the verdigris in the pigment. (Canby 1993, p. 92)
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Picnic
Attributed to Muhammadi of Herat,
fl. second half of 16th century
Khurasan, about 1565
Unmentioned by 16th-century Persian biographers, Muhammadi was nonetheless a very influential artist. He popularized various scenes of figures in landscape and advanced the technique of combining polychromy and drawing seen in this princely fête champêtre. (previous label text)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2011 March-July, London, BM, 'No Equal in All the World: Artistic Legacies from Herat, Afghanistan'
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- From an album of 51 folios (Or 1372, 1920,0917,0.255-303) acquired by the British Museum in 1875 from Sir Charles Murray (1806-1895). Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB) in 1920.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1920,0917,0.302
