Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

Donate

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google+
  • Email
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2023 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
art and photography

Picture of the Day: Iranian Woman Tambourine Player, 1848

contributors 05/05/2017

Tweet
Share41
Reddit
Email
41 Shares

British Museum | Persian Costumes | – –

“Portrait of a young woman; single-page painting mounted on album folio. A young woman kneels on a yellow and white carpet while holding a large tambourine to the right with both hands. She wears an orange blouse, a blue jacket fastened at the waist, and a bright pink skirt. An apple is on the carpet below the tambourine. Album contains 19 paintings of Persian costumes.
Ink and opaque watercolour on paper. Album bound in green leather with gold gilt trim, with pages of gold trim. Includes loose letter (in French) on thin blue paper describing contents and addressed to recipient.”

British Museum Digital Collection

AN00020698_001_l

British Museum
Collection online
Persian Costumes

Object type
painting term details
album term details
Museum number

1921,0614,0.1.8
Title (series)

School/style
Qajar School term details
Culture/period
Qajar dynasty term details
Date: 1842 (date of European binding)
19thC (late)
Production place
Made in: Iran

Materials
paper
Technique
painted term details

See 1921.0614,0.1 .1-.19 for all folios included in this album.

Location

Not on display
Subjects
persian costume
musical instrument (tambourine)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by: Baroness Zouche
Acquisition date: 1921
Department: Middle East
Registration number

1921,0614,0.1.8

Filed Under: art and photography, Iran

Primary Sidebar

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter and have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.

Twitter

Follow Juan Cole @jricole or Informed Comment @infcomment on Twitter

Facebook



Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2023 All Rights Reserved

Posting....