album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1920,0917,0.95
- Description
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Painting, detached album leaf. Two miniatures mounted together. Upper register iIllustrates a man, arm extended, attempting to touch (or presumably catch) a fox, in a landscape setting; below a woman watches as a cobra, dripping blood, emerges from a hole in the wall. The woman stands within a courtyard, arm extended and holding a cup. No text. Painted in opaque watercolour on paper.
- Production date
- 1600 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.20 centimetres (image)
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Height: 42.20 centimetres (sheet)
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Width: 10 centimetres (image)
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Width: 28.80 centimetres (sheet)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- Folio 20 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
- 1920,0917,0.95