album;
painting;
papercut
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.13.46.v
- Title
- Series: A briefe relation of the Turckes, their kings, Emperors, or Grandsigneurs, their conquests, religion, customes, habbits, etc
- Description
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Portrait of Hantuncuk; painting mounted on album folio. Young woman of rank holding a gold wine goblet and handkercheif. Blue sleevelss jacket with black lining over scarlet green-lined dress (entari). White robe and trousers, yellow slippers, high silver head-dress (tantura) with white cloth (yemeni). Yellow rose cut-outs on either side. Inscribed. Album contains sixty folios with fifty-nine paintings of figures, and additional découpages, including floral and vegetal decoration in some margins.
Ink and opaque watercolour, with découpage on paper. Album covered with green leather.
- Production date
- 1618
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.50 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 19.80 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 2 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 14 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 13.20 centimetres (page)
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- Curator's comments
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From an album dated 1618, consisting of sixty folios with fifty-nine paintings of figures, and additional découpages, including floral and vegetal decoration in some margins.
The title given by Titley seems at variance with that inscribed above the figure, though the figure fits her description.
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See 1974,0617,0.13 .1-.65 for all folios included in this album.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012 Jul - Nov, London, BM, 'Shakespeare: staging the world'
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB), which acquired it at Sotheby's sale on 5th July, 1860 (lot 861). Album bears initials PM, probably produced for Peter Mundy.
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.13.46.v
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Add. 23880
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Miscellaneous number: Or. 54
