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Walters Ms. W.709, Single leaf of a seated man with a flower

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Shelf mark

W.709


Manuscript

Single leaf of a seated man with a flower


Text title
Seated man with a flower

Abstract

This Indian drawing with opaque watercolor and illumination depicts a man seated against a cushion holding a flower in his left hand. The work was executed in India during the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. There is a Persian inscription reading, "a youth as ambitious as Iskandar (Alexander the Great)."


Date

12th century AH / 18th 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

8.5 cm wide by 13.5 cm high


Contents:
fols. W.709a - W.709b:
  1. Title: Seated man with a flower

Decoration:

fol. W.709a:

  1. W.709, fol. W.709a
  2. Title: Seated man with a flower
  3. Form: Drawing
  4. Label: This Indian drawing with opaque watercolor and illumination depicts a man seated against a cushion holding a flower in his left hand. The work was executed in India during the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. There is a Persian inscription reading, "a youth as ambitious as Iskandar (Alexander the Great)."

fol. W.709b:

  1. W.709, fol. W.709b
  2. Title: Seated man with a flower (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.