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Walters Ms. W.746, Single leaf of a man spinning cotton

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Manuscript

Single leaf of a man spinning cotton

Text title

Man spinning cotton

Abstract

This is a drawing depicting a man spinning cotton. It was executed in the mid tenth century AH / sixteenth CE in Iran, possibly in Qazwīn. The drawing is framed by verses in nastaʿlīq script inscribed in panels, and the whole is surrounded by an outer border with animals and vegetal decoration on a blue background.

Date

Mid 10th century AH / 16th CE

Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard

Extent

Foliation: Not applicable

Dimensions

23.5 cm wide by 36.0 cm high

Layout

1. Image: 7.6 cm wide by 12.0 high

Contents:

1. Title: Man spinning cotton
2. Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script
3. Decoration note: Outer border of blue-tinted paper with illuminated animal and floral motifs; inner salmon-colored border with illuminated motifs

Decoration:

fol. W.746a:

2. Title: Man spinning cotton
3. Form: Drawing
4. Label: This is a drawing depicting a man spinning cotton. It was executed in the mid tenth century AH / sixteenth CE in Iran, possibly in Qazwīn. The drawing is framed by verses in nastaʿlīq script inscribed in panels, and the whole is surrounded by an outer border with animals and vegetal decoration on a blue background.

fol. W.746b:

2. Title: Man spinning cotton (back)
3. Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Bibliography

Grube, Ernst J. and Maria Alberta Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition. (Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962), 117.

Robinson, B. W. Persian Drawings from the 14th through the 19th Century. New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1965.

Atil, Esin. The Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran and India. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1978.

Swietochowski, M. L., and S. Babaie. Persian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989.

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.

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