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The Hour of Prayer in the Sahara Desert
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Heirs of William T. Reid Jr. Cambridge Massachusetts gift to the Fogg Art Museum 1978.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of the heirs of William T. Reid Jr.: William T. Reid III Edith Reid Stetson Christine L. Reid
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A Central and Western Desert style acrylic on canvas painting that utilises the dot method which was brought to the attention of the wider public through the circulation of artwork...
'A 'mani' or Tibetan 'Prayer-Revolver', at Buddhnath. Nov.
1854'
'A 'mani' or Tibetan 'Prayer-Revolver', at Buddhnath. Nov.
1854'
Watercolour of a 'mani' or Tibetan prayer-wheel,
at Bodnath Temple in Nepal, by Henry Ambrose Oldfield (1822-1871),
dated November 1854. The Bodnath stupa is one of the largest in ...
Majnun visited by his father in the desert (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Layla and Majnun by Nizami
Majnun visited by his father in the desert (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Layla and Majnun by Nizami
In the tragic romance between Layla and Qays (later known as majnun—“mad” or “possessed”), the two met and fell in love as schoolchildren. Layla’s father rejected Qays’s marriage p...
A King Attending a Purification Ceremony
A King Attending a Purification Ceremony
The painting depicts a type of purification ceremony for a male youth, possibly a prince. He sits in a white, square basin while a male figure adds water to the inside of the struc...
Portrait of a Seated Shaivite Holy Man with Prayer Beads
Portrait of a Seated Shaivite Holy Man with Prayer Beads
Facing right is a holy man seated cross-legged. He wear a large red turban and a white robe (jama). He has a dark, full beard. In his right hand he holds up prayer beads. The yello...
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad (recto); Geneaology of the Prophet Muhammad (verso) , left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Calligraphic Portrait of the Prophet Muhammad (recto); Geneaology of the Prophet Muhammad (verso) , left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript
Copied in naskh script by Ismail Bosnavi, these two folios (2002.50.119 and 2002.50.135) contain a hilye (Arabic hilya), or calligraphically rendered description in Arabic of the P...
portrait from "De Carthage au Sahara".
portrait from "De Carthage au Sahara".
This image has been taken from scan 000151 from "De Carthage au Sahara". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Li...