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Abdullah Khan Uzbeg Hawking

about 1618
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueInk, light wash, and gold on paper
Dimensions18.1 x 16.2 cm (7 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession number14.647
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsTiny inscription below drawing, identifying artist.
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).
Portrait of an Imam
Abul Hasan
about 1620
Birth of the Virgin
Copy, about 1610, of a 1581 engraving
Dying Inayat Khan
Balchand
1618–19
Portrait of a Maulvi
early 16th century
Portrait of a seated man
18th–19th century
A Mother, Child, and Nurses
probably 17th century