album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.1.38
- Title
- Series: Album of Persian Costumes and Animals with Some Drawings by Kaempfer
- Description
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A performing goat and spectators; single-page painting on an album folio. The recreational painting depicts five Iraqi men and dog surrounding the performing goat. One man kneels playing a drum, while another sits beside a column with a goat balancing on top. Three other men gaze upon the event from either side. Inscribed. Album contains 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
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Height: 22.40 centimetres (Manuscript)
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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: 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
2009 19 Feb-14 Jun, BM, Round Reading Room, 'Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran'
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.1.38
- Additional IDs
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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)
