Interpretation
Information
- Title
- Portrait of Sharif Sarmadi from the Salim Album
- Object Number
- y1969-39
- Medium
- Ink, gold, and color on paper
- Dates
- ca. 1600
- Dimensions
- miniature: 12.1 × 5.9 cm (4 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.) sheet: 22.7 × 14.2 cm (8 15/16 × 5 9/16 in.) mat: 48.9 × 36.2 cm (19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900
- Culture
- Indian
- Place made
- Asia, India
- Inscriptions
- Black-on-buff inscription above scene; inscription and scene together bordered with bands of blue and a broad zone of gold geometric patterns on the parchment ground.
- Materials
Donor's number JLD33.
From Ettinghausen, “Islamic Art from Princeton”: Listed as “Portrait of an Official of the Court of the Emperor Jahangir,” about 1620. (See reference Bib. 702)
Card dates as from Reign of Jahangir, 1605-1627.
- "Acquisitions 1969", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 29, no. 1 (1970): p. 16-27., p. 27
- "Gifts by J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900, to the Art Museum", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 33, no. 2 (1974): p. 24-30., p. 26
- Richard Ettinghausen, Islamic art from Princeton Collections, (Princeton , NJ: The Museum, 1974). , no. 37
- Glenn D. Lowry, et. al., An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Vever Collection, (Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988)., no. 329 (for Salim Album)
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