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Unidentified subject Arabic calligraphy
Unknown
(Miniaturist)
One of two leaves of a manuscript, one showing calligraphy, the other an unidentified scene (Shaikh Sanan tending the swine before the Greek Christian maid with whom he was infatuated from the 'Mantik al-Tair', by 'Attar. (N.T., January 1970, see note in file.))
Height: 171 mm
Width: 117 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1939)
by
Hornblower, G. D., OBE
Probably Kashmir.
Bodycolour
White bodycolour
Ink
Gold
Support composed of paper Recto Verso
Accession number: 3452a
Primary reference Number: 33417
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Unidentified subject"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/33417 Accessed: 2022-07-01 15:52:09
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Accession Number: 3715
Accession Number: 208
Accession Number: 3452b
Accession Number: E.32.1903
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