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Walters Ms. W.697, Single leaf of a Portrait of Shahriyar

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Shelf mark

W.697


Manuscript

Single leaf of a Portrait of Shahriyar


Text title
Portrait of Shahriyar

Abstract

This Mughal drawing is of a young man, identified by the inscription as Shahriyār, who was the youngest son of the fourth Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr (d. 1037 AH / 1627 CE). It dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. Shahriyār is shown in profile position, which is common in Mughal painting, especially in depictions of court ceremonies. The portrait is a preparatory drawing for a manuscript painting. It may have been at a later stage that the window frame and hand were drawn to suggest a jharoka scene. The buff-tinted and gold-sprinkled border is attributable to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. The portrait is inscribed shabīh-i Shariyār in red nastaʿlīq script.


Date

11th century AH / 17th CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

12.5 cm wide by 18.0 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 4.2 cm wide x 5.3 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.697a - W.697b:
  1. Title: Portrait of Shahriyar
  2. Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script in red
  3. Decoration note: Buff-tinted, gold-sprinkled paper for border

Decoration:

fol. W.697a:

  1. W.697, fol. W.697a
  2. Title: Portrait of Shahriyar
  3. Form: Drawing
  4. Label: This portrait is inscribed shabīh-i Shariyār (likeness of Shariyār).

fol. W.697b:

  1. W.697, fol. W.697b
  2. Title: Portrait of Shahriyar (back)
  3. Form: Back
  4. Label: This is the back of a drawing of a portrait of Shahriyar. There is a late inscription indicating it is signed by the artist.

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.