Main Title: "Great Hornbill," folio from the Shah Jahan Album (NY Met 55.121.10.14)
Image Title: Full view. 17198909
- Holding institution:
- Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
- Data provider:
- Harvard University Library
- Title:
- Main Title: "Great Hornbill," folio from the Shah Jahan Album (NY Met 55.121.10.14)
Image Title: Full view. 17198909 - Creator:
- Mansur, Indian painter (artist), 1551-1630 (Artist)
Mir 'Ali Husayni Haravi, b. Herat; d. Bukhara, Iranian (Calligrapher) - Date:
- 1600
1640
Early 17th cent. - Description:
- Culture: Indian, Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gold, ink, opaque watercolor, paper, opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paperNote: Attribution: Mansur, painter (active ca. 1589–1626)Note: Provenance: Jack S. Rofe, Scotland (in 1929; sale, Sotheby's London,December 12, 1929, to Kevorkian); [ Hagop Kevorkian, New York, 1929–55; gift and sale to MMA]. Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955.Note: Inscription: Signature: 55.121.10.14 recto: ; In Persian, in lower left of central panel: The slave Mir 'Ali. ; Inscription: 55.121.10.14 verso: ; Persian Inscription, in lower part of second border (in Jahangir's hand): "Work of Ustad Mansur" ; Marking: 55.121.10.14 verso: ; Margin number '43' is inscribed in the gilt margin.
- Type:
- still image
paintings - Type (Narrower):
- Paintings
- Type (Broader):
- Image
- Subject:
- miniatures (paintings)
animals
birds
borders (ornamental areas)
illuminations
inscriptions
Persian
nasta'liq - Geographic region:
- Place of Production: India
- Extent:
- 38.7 centimeters; 26.7 centimeters
- Rights:
- (CC BY-NC-SA) Attribution: Harvard Fine Arts Library, Special Collections SCW2016.07911
- Identifier:
- W260515_URN-3:FHCL:29084082
- Is part of:
- Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photographic Collection