album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1928,0323,0.46.110
- Title
- Series: The Habits of the Grand Signor's Court
- Description
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A woman smoking tobacco; single-page painting mounted on album folio. A woman smoking tobacco from a long-stemmed pipe with a red clay bowl, wearing a blue entari, white robe, gold belt, boots with a red and blue design and a tall headdress with silver design. Inscribed. Album contains 124 paintings of Turkish sultans and court officials.
Ink, opaque watercolour, silver and gold on paper. Album bound in green leather with pages of Persian paper, according to inscription. Page edges gilded with gold.
- Production date
- 1620 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.30 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 20.70 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 3.80 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 16.30 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 13.70 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1928,0323,0.46 .1-.122 for all folios included in this album.
For spine and front matter inscriptions, see 1928,0323,0.46.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the British Library.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1928,0323,0.46.110
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: SL.5258