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Hawking Party

Mirza 'Ali (Persian, active 1525–1575)

Verso about 1570; recto after 1583

Object PlaceQazvin or Mashhad, Iran

Medium/TechniqueInk, color, gold, and silver on paper

DimensionsHeight x width: 48.4 × 33 cm (19 1/16 × 13 in.)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution

Accession number14.624

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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

Collections

InscriptionsBack of page (14.624b) includes calligraphic specimens sighned by Qutbu'din Muhammad al-Yazdi and dated equivalent to 1565ProvenanceBy 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).