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Walters Ms. W.695, Single leaf of a Jesuit priest

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Shelf mark

W.695


Manuscript

Single leaf of a Jesuit priest


Text title
A Jesuit priest

Abstract

This Mughal painting portrays a Jesuit priest standing in a landscape, holding a rosary in his right hand. It is attributable to the the mid-eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The top and bottom of the painting are bordered with marbled paper. Reddish-brown-tinted paper with illuminated floral motifs surrounds the image on four sides.


Date

Mid 11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is No linguistic content; Not applicable.


Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

21.0 cm wide by 31.8 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 10.3 cm wide x 15.5 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.695a - W.695b:
  1. Title: A Jesuit priest
  2. Decoration note: Top and bottom of painting bordered with marble paper; reddish-brown-tinted paper with illuminated floral motifs surrounding image on four sides

Decoration:

fol. W.695a:

  1. W.695, fol. W.695a
  2. Title: A Jesuit priest
  3. Form: Painting

fol. W.695b:

  1. W.695, fol. W.695b
  2. Title: A Jesuit priest (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.