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Walters Ms. W.745, Single leaf of a seated man

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Shelf mark

W.745


Manuscript

Single leaf of a seated man


Text title
A seated man

Abstract

This drawing dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE and was executed in Safavid Iran. It depicts a seated figure in a Safavid-style turban. The dark blue borders with polychrome floral motifs appear to have been added at a later stage.


Date

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

5.0 cm wide by 7.0 cm high


Contents:
fols. W.745a - W.745b:
  1. Title: A seated man

Decoration:

fol. W.745a:

  1. W.745, fol. W.745a
  2. Title: A seated man
  3. Form: Drawing; watercolor
  4. Label: This drawing dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE and was executed in Safavid Iran. It depicts a seated figure in a Safavid-style turban. The dark blue borders with polychrome floral motifs appear to have been added at a later stage.

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1952, by purchase


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.