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ID: 700009028
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009028
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
Folio from the “Late Shah Jahan Album” (detached leaf; calligrapher: Mir 'Ali Heravi; Folio, borders, illumination a...; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 60.170)
Titles:
Folio from the “Late Shah Jahan Album” (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
detached leaf [300379890] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, leaves (gathered matter))

Classifications:
calligraphy (preferred)

Creation Date: Folio, borders, illumination about 1650/1658; calligraphy about 1505/1545

Creator Display:
calligrapher: Mir 'Ali Heravi [preferred]
calligrapher Mir 'Ali Husayni Haravi (Persian calligrapher, 1476-1543) [500116607]
Locations:
Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 60.170
Credit Line: Gift of John Goelet
Display Materials: Ink, color, and gold on paper
ink [300015012]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)
color (pigment) [300264870]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)
gilding (material) [300379350]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>)
paper (fiber product) [300014109]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: Overall: 38.2 x 25.4cm (15 1/16 x 10in.); (Without borders): 15.6 x 8.2cm (6 1/8 x 3 1/4in.)
Cultures:
Indian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:
Mughal [300018939] (preferred,period)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Islamic World| The, Islamic (culture or style), Islamic Indian)

General Subject:
text (preferred)

Provenance: 1960, gift of John Goelet, Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 10, 1960)
Inscriptions: Signed by Mir 'Ali Heravi
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
............... Late Shah Jahan Album
Sources and Contributors:
Folio from the “Late Shah Jahan Album”........ [VP]
........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)
Subject: ....... [VP]
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