album;
papercut
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.13.49.r
- Title
- Series: A briefe relation of the Turckes, their kings, Emperors, or Grandsigneurs, their conquests, religion, customes, habbits, etc
- Description
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Flowers; paper cut-outs mounted on album folio. Three cut-out flowers: cyclamen and lilac on left; pink roses and tulip in centre; tulip on right. 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
- 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
- 1974,0617,0.13.49.r
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Add. 23880
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Miscellaneous number: Or. 54
