album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.10.52
- Title
- Series: Hindu and Persian Miniatures and Penmanship
- Description
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Layla visiting Majnun in the desert; single-page painting mounted on album folio, B-side. Layla, holding a book, sitting by an emaciated Majnun and dog. Various animals, including elephants, lions and birds, in foreground. Rocky landscape with building in background. Gold border with colourful flowers and thin red border. Album contains 62 paintings and calligraphies.
Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper. Album covers painted with various hunting scenes.
- Production date
- 1650-1700 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 27.70 centimetres (image with borders)
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Height: 23 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: 18.90 centimetres (image with borders)
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Width: 14.20 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 1974,0617,0.10.51 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
- From an album reputed to have been in the collection of the Rohilla ruler Hafiz Rahmat Khan (1723–1774). Later owned by Busick Harwood (1750-1814), an English surgeon in India from 1773-8. According to an inscription on a flyleaf, Harwood purchased the volume ‘from a sepoy officer who had taken it out of the library of Hafez Rahmat’ at the time he was killed in April 1774. Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby's and Co, 21st June 1858, Lot 1019. Formerly Album 22,470 / Or 55d, transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB) in 1974.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.10.52
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 22,470
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Miscellaneous number: 22470F27V
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Miscellaneous number: Or 55d
