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Materials:

opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper

Size Notes:

image; sheet size 40.6 x 29.1 cm

Description:

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Condition:

within an illuminated ruled frame and outer border decorated in gold with pastoral scenes of animals and plants, some slight flaking and loss, mainly to the area of fallen masonry near the figure of Nushirvan, archival mount, modern museum-quality frame

Literature:

Barbara Brend, The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami, British Library, 1995. Stuart Cary Welch, Royal Persian Miniatures, Thames and Hudson, 1976, plates 19 and 20, pages 70-73. Stuart Cary Welch, Wonders of the Age Ð Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting 1501-1576, British Museum, 1979, pages 138-141. Malini Roy and J.P. Losty, Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British Library, 2013

Provenance:

Reverend Edward James Clifton of Hawick, Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, Army Chaplain in Persia during the First World War with the Mesopotamian and North-Western Persia Expeditionary Forces, and author of Bible illustrations from Persia of to-day, Marshall Brothers [1914]; Sale, Mainstreet Trading auction, Saint Boswells, Melrose, March 4, circa 1995, where purchased by the current owner