id: 124001 accession number: 1944.490 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.490 updated: 2025-08-07 20:55:51.971000 Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso), c. 1485. Style of Bihzad (Iranian, active 1470–1506). Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1944.490 title: Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto) and Calligraphy, Persian Verses (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1485 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1500 current location: creditline: Edward L. Whittemore Fund copyright: --- culture: Afghanistan or Iran, Timurid period (1370–1501) technique: opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bihzad (Iranian, active 1470–1506) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Islamic Art opening date: 1944-11-03T04:00:00 Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945). title: The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran opening date: 1961-10-19T04:00:00 The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962). title: Muslim Miniature Paintings opening date: 1962-09-01T04:00:00 Muslim Miniature Paintings. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, Venezia, Italy (organizer) (September 1-October 31, 1962); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 4, 1962-February 3, 1963). title: The Classical Style in Islamic Painting opening date: 1968-11-01T05:00:00 The Classical Style in Islamic Painting. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 1, 1968-January 4, 1969). title: Persian Miniature Manuscripts opening date: 1977-08-13T04:00:00 Persian Miniature Manuscripts. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'International Exhibition of Persian Art. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-February 28, 1931). [Lent by Philip Hofer, New York]', 'opening_date': '1931-01-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 9, 1933-January 7, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1933-10-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Islamic and Indian Miniature Paintings and Manuscripts. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 15, 1955-February 19, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1955-12-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Persian Art. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy (May-October 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-05-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "7000 Ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October-November 1961).", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963).', 'opening_date': '1962-09-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Classical Style in Islamic Painting.... Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY (November 6, 1968-January 4, 1969).', 'opening_date': '1968-11-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Imperial Images in Persian Painting. The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).', 'opening_date': '1977-08-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Purchased from Philip Hofer by Edward L. Whittemore Endowment Fund date: ?-1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1944- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Martin, F. R. The Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia, India and Turkey, from the 8th to the 18th Century. London: B. Quaritch, 1912. page number: Mentioned: Vol. I, p. 43; Reproduced: Vol. II pl. 68. url: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Maurice Sven Dimand. A Guide to an Exhibition of Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination. [Portland, Me.]: [The Southworth Press], 1933. page number: Reproduced: P. 31, fig. 19 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/137388 Hollis, Howard. "Three Iranian Miniatures." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 4 (1945): 35-41. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 35 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141194 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 723 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n132 Grube, Ernst J. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada. Catalogue of the Exhibition. Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 53 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 222 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n246 Grube, Ernst J, and Pierpont Morgan Library. The Classical Style in Islamic Painting : The Early School of Herat and Its Impact on Islamic Painting of the Later 15th, the 16th and 17th Centuries : Some Examples in American Collections. Place of publication not identified: Edizioni Oriens, 1968. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 191, No. 37 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 222 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n246 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 279 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n299 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.490/1944.490_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.490/1944.490_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.490/1944.490_full.tif