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Tethered Camel and Rider (drawing, recto; calligraphy, verso), folio from an album
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The drawing on the recto of this folio depicts a man wearing a Safavid turban who faces a camel. The man holds the camel by a ring on its bridle. Both man and beast are portrayed in profile with open mouths. The man holds his left hand proper at head level, balled into a fist. The camel sports small bells around the forelegs and a red-tinted cloth on the back. The verso of the folio bears a fragment of Persian poetry written in nasta’liq script, surrounded by illumination.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[A. Sakisian] by 1929. Stuart Cary Welch Jr. Warner New Hampshire (by 1979-2008) by inheritance; to Edith I. Welch Warner New Hampshire (2008-2011) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2011.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Stuart Cary Welch Collection Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
Title: Tethered Camel and Rider (drawing, recto; calligraphy, verso), folio from an album
Description:
The drawing on the recto of this folio depicts a man wearing a Safavid turban who faces a camel.
The man holds the camel by a ring on its bridle.
Both man and beast are portrayed in profile with open mouths.
The man holds his left hand proper at head level, balled into a fist.
The camel sports small bells around the forelegs and a red-tinted cloth on the back.
The verso of the folio bears a fragment of Persian poetry written in nasta’liq script, surrounded by illumination.
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