Album

Description

Album containing twenty four drawings, chiefly portrait miniatures and full figures, some in colour, with a cover of painted papier-mache: Middle East, Iran and Turkey, Ottoman, various dates, album assembled 12th century AH / 18th century AD

Museum reference

A.1888.88

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Album, Drawing, Portrait

Production information

el-fakir Suleyman, Delineator
Istanbul, Turkey, West Asia
Turkey, West Asia
Iran, West Asia

Date

12th century AH
18th century

Style / Culture

Ottoman

Materials

Papier-mâché, Paper

Physical description

Papier-mache cover

Associations

Depicted: Sultan Ahmet I

Exhibitions

• Discover Islamic Art (01 Dec 2005)
  World Wide Web

References

J. Sourdel-Thomine and B. Spuler, Die Kunst des Islam, Propyläenkunstgeschichte Band 4, Berlin 1973, Plate 416

Türkische Kunst und Kultur aus osmanischer Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Recklinghausen 1985, p. 67 no. 1/29, p. 235 no. 4/11, p. 236 no. 4/12

Jennifer Scarce, Domestic Culture in the Middle East: an Exploration of the Household Interior, Edinburgh 1996, p. 87

Links to other web pages

MWNF