album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.89
- Description
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Fighting pheasants; single-page drawing mounted on a detached album folio. Two pairs of pheasants are shown entangled. Drawing is bordered by a gilt frame and is mounted onto a page bearing gilt floral designs.
Ink on paper.
- Production date
- 1701-1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.20 centimetres (drawing)
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Width: 21.80 centimetres (drawing)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2001, British Museum, Addis Gallery, Birds in Islamic Paintings
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- Folio 14 of an album formerly in the collection of Antoine Polier, later acquired by William Beckford. Acquired by the British Museum from Bernard Quaritch in 1860.
27 folios with 36 paintings. Previously known as album Add 23610 / Or 65c. Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB). Now 1920,0917,0.76-111..
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1920,0917,0.89