album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.1.6
- Title
- Series: Album of Persian Costumes and Animals with Some Drawings by Kaempfer
- Description
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Laila's resting camel; single-page illustration on an album folio. Camel rests, on all fours, with a cushioned seat tied on top. A loose chain hangs from the camel's face. 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
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From an album bound in gold decorated brown morocco, with forty five drawings, including topographical, Persian costume and animals.
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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
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.1.6
- 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)