album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1974,0617,0.4.4
- Title
- Series: Effigies regum et satrapum persiae
- Description
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Akbar; single-page painting mounted on album folio. Portrait of Akbar holding a sword and wearing a peach tunic with dagger carried in the sash. Inscribed. Album contains 51 Persian portraits.
Opaque watercolour on paper. Album covered in leather binding over marbled paper with gold leaf on spine.
- Production date
- 1651-1750 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 30 centimetres (Manuscript)
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Height: 29.50 centimetres (Page)
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Thickness: 3.70 centimetres (Manuscript)
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Width: 22 centimetres (Manuscript)
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Width: 19.50 centimetres (Page)
- Curator's comments
- See 1974,0617,0.4.1-51 for all folios included in this album.
See 1974,0617,0.4.1 for spine and front matter inscriptions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books (OMPB).
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1974,0617,0.4.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 7964
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Miscellaneous number: Or.56
