album;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1942,0124,0.1
- Description
-
Shoeing a horse; single-page drawing on a detached album folio. Drawing is depicting two men shoeing a horse in Persian costume while a third man holds its head. Tools lay strewn across the ground in front of the men. Void background.
Ink, gold, silver and watercolour on paper.
- Production date
- 1600 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.40 centimetres (image)
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Width: 14.20 centimetres (image)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2012 24 May-30 Sep, London, BM, 'The horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot'
2002 25 Nov-2003 30 Mar, France, Paris, Institut de Monde Arabe, The Horse in Islamic Culture
1996, 'Furusiyya' (cancelled)
1977 London, BM, Animals in Art
- Acquisition date
- 1942
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by Viscount Wellesley in 1794 (after the old draft register, p. 171)
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1942,0124,0.1
