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Accession number:
MS M.1025.1
Title:
Four Indian Miniatures
Created:
[ca. 1625]
Credit:
Gift; Paul F. Walter; 1980.
Description:
1 single leaf : paper on card, ill. ; 390 x 272 mm.
Provenance:
Sir Robert A.W. Dent, London; his sale, Sotheby's, London, Apr. 11, 1972, lot 64; Paul F. Walter.
Notes:
Ms. Mughal miniature; illuminated in northern India, ca. 1625.
Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.1035.6 was purchased in the same Dent sale in 1972 and is from the same album.
"The composition is taken from an unidentified late-fifteenth/early-sixteenth-century Italian, possibly Florentine, print"--Cf. Schmitz.
Miniature on recto measures 147 x 95 mm.
Text of calligraphy on verso: a Persian quatrain. Illuminated border.
Verso: "A dedication is in another hand and later was inserted in the lower left corner"--Cf. Schmitz.
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