Accession number
MS M.1025.1
Object title
European lady and child standing in a room. Verso: Calligraphy.
Created
Northern India, ca. 1625
Credit line
Gift of 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.
Morgan Library & Museum 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.
Morgan Library & Museum 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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