album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1983,0315,0.1.15
- Title
- Series: Portraits of celebrities of the Persian Court
- Description
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A dancing girl; single-page painting mounted on album folio. Dancing girl with long hair and hennaed hands wearing an ornate red tunic with a blue skirt, yellow sash with flowers and cap with feathers. Standing on an orange rug with blue flowers. Inscribed. Album contains 26 portraits and flower studies.
Ink and opaque watercolour on paper. Album bound with leather, with gold gilt trim decorating front cover, spine and edges of pages.
- Production date
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1830 (circa)
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1852 (Album compiled)
- Dimensions
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Height: 23.20 centimetres (manuscript)
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Height: 22.40 centimetres (page)
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Thickness: 1.20 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 19 centimetres (manuscript)
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Width: 18 centimetres (page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1983,0315,0.1 .1-.26 for all folios included in this album.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1983
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1983,0315,0.1.15