album;
map
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.1.35
- Title
- Series: Album of Persian Costumes and Animals with Some Drawings by Kaempfer
- Description
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Map of the Eastern Hemisphere; single-page drawing on an album folio. Map from a Persian original. Entire map appears within a circular composition, outlined with a dark border. Inscribed. Album contains 44 paintings and drawings, mostly of Persian costumes and animals with some drawings by Kaempfer.
Ink on paper. Album is bound in brown leather with gold gilt decoration. Inside covers have marbled paper.
- Production date
- 1684-1685 (AH 1096)
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.40 centimetres (Manuscript)
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Height: 16 centimetres (map)
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Height: 21.40 centimetres (sheet)
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Thickness: 2.90 centimetres (Manuscript)
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Width: 32 centimetres (Manuscript)
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Width: 22.50 centimetres (map)
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Width: 29.90 centimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- 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
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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
2011-2012, 6 Oct-19 Feb, London, The British Museum, 'Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman'
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.1.35
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1753,1029.25
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Miscellaneous number: CXV.A (on fly leaf in pencil; Montagu House press-mark?)
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Miscellaneous number: Min.142 (98) (on fly leaf; old Sloane Library Numbers)
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Miscellaneous number: PLUT.CXIII.B (on spine of album; old BM library shelf-mark; ie. PLUT = Plutarch)
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Miscellaneous number: SL.2925 (obsolete BM Library number replaced by 5027.b)
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Miscellaneous number: SL.5027.b (on spine of album and fly leaf)
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Miscellaneous number: XXXIX.A (on fly leaf)
