album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.10.32
- Title
- Series: Hindu and Persian Miniatures and Penmanship
- Description
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Khusrau watching Shirin bathe; single-page painting mounted on album folio, B-side. Khusrau, mounted on horseback with a falcon on his arm, watches Shirin bathing by the river while her horse drinks from it. Four figures in right background. Hilly landscape with trees and buildings in far background. Gold border with colourful flowers and thin red border. Inscribed. Album contains 62 paintings and calligraphies.
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper. Album covers painted with various hunting scenes.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 23.80 centimetres (image with borders)
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Height: 20.30 centimetres (image)
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Height: 39.40 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 38.10 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 4 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 18.50 centimetres (image with borders)
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Width: 14.80 centimetres (image)
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Width: 30 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 28 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1974,0617,0.10 .1-.62 for all folios included in this album.
See 1974,0617,0.10.31 for image mounted on reverse of this folio.
For spine, front inside cover and front matter inscriptions, see 1974,0617,0.10.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Khamsa (Khamseh) of Nizami
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.10.32
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 22,470
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Miscellaneous number: Or 55d
