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Walters Ms. W.682, Single leaf of a youth with a falcon

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Shelf mark

W.682


Manuscript

Single leaf of a youth with a falcon


Text title
A youth with a falcon

Abstract

This Safavid drawing depicts a kneeling young man with a falcon. It dates to the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE and was likely produced in Qazvin or Isfahan. Gilt and blue pigment are used to highlight the figure's clothing. Polychrome floral decoration in a decorative arch fills the upper portion of the composition.


Date

Late 10th century AH / 16th CE to early 11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

Iran


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable


Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

21.0 cm wide by 32.0 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 8.5 cm wide by 16.0 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.682a - W.682b:
  1. Title: A youth with a falcon
  2. Decoration note: Gold-sprinkled, salmon-colored paper for border; framing lines in gold, red, blue, and black

Decoration:

fol. W.682a:

  1. W.682, fol. W.682a
  2. Title: A youth with a falcon
  3. Form: Drawing
  4. Label: This Safavid drawing depicts a kneeling young man with a falcon, a popular motif for paintings and drawings produced on single leaves. It dates to the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE and was likely produced in Qazvin or Isfahan.

fol. W.682b:

  1. W.682, fol. W.682b
  2. Title: A youth with a falcon (back)
  3. Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.