album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.1.18
- Title
- Series: Album of Persian Costumes and Animals with Some Drawings by Kaempfer
- Description
-
Double portrait of an Indian woman and a Georgian woman; single-page painting on an album folio. Indian woman, left, holds a small, shallow cup in one hand and a large vessle in the other. A turban wraps around her head, with a long shawl extending towards the ground. Three strands of beads hang from her neck, while a translucent skirt draps over her pants, tied at her waist by a long sash. The Georgian woman holds a piece of fruit in one hand, while the other clutches her sash, tied around her waist. She wears a triangular shaped hat, jacket, skirt, pants, and heeled-shoes. Inscribed. Album includes 44 paintings and drawings, mostly of Persian costumes and animals with some drawings by Kaempfer.
Ink and opaque watercolour on paper. Album is bound in brown leather with gold gilt decoration. Inside covers have marbled paper.
- Production date
- 1684-1685 (AH 1096)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 22.40 centimetres (Manuscript)
-
Height: 21.40 centimetres (sheet)
-
Thickness: 2.90 centimetres (Manuscript)
-
Width: 32 centimetres (Manuscript)
-
Width: 29.90 centimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- See 1974,0617.0.1 .1-.45 for all folios included in this album.
See 1974,0617,0.1.1-2 for spine and front matter inscriptions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2013 - 2014 27 Sep - 12 Jan, Zurich, Museum Rietberg, 'The Fascination of Persia' 1974,0617,0.1.12 and 1974,0617,0.1.13 displayed
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.1.18
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: 1753,1029.25
-
Miscellaneous number: CXV.A (on fly leaf in pencil; Montagu House press-mark?)
-
Miscellaneous number: Min.142 (98) (on fly leaf; old Sloane Library Numbers)
-
Miscellaneous number: PLUT.CXIII.B (on spine of album; old BM library shelf-mark; ie. PLUT = Plutarch)
-
Miscellaneous number: SL.2925 (obsolete BM Library number replaced by 5027.b)
-
Miscellaneous number: SL.5027.b (on spine of album and fly leaf)
-
Miscellaneous number: XXXIX.A (on fly leaf)
