id:			125581
accession number:	1947.502.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.502.b
updated:		2022-01-04 15:35:23.884000

Calligraphy, c. 1596. Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), Sur Das (Indian). Ink and color on paper; image: 34 x 20 cm (13 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.); overall: 38.5 x 25 cm (15 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.); with mat: 49 x 36.3 cm (19 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.502.b

title:				Calligraphy
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			c. 1596
creation date earliest:		1591
creation date latest:		1601
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	India, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756)
technique:	ink and color on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Calligraphy
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)  - designed by

* Sur Das (Indian)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 34 x 20 cm (13 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.); Overall: 38.5 x 25 cm (15 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.); with mat: 49 x 36.3 cm (19 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	recto lower left: [translated] Siege of the fort of Irbil by Urgatu Nuyan and the attainment of victory by command of Hulagu Khan.; verso overall: [text]
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art and Stories from Mughal India
	opening date:   2016-07-31T04:00:00
	<i>Art and Stories from Mughal India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Demotte
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	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1947
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1947-
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fun fact: 
This fortified city in the heart of Kurdistan, now called Irbil, is in Iraq.

digital description: 


wall description: 
Akbar, the third Mughal emperor of India, commissioned an illustrated copy of the Chingiz-nama, a historical text written in Persian during the early 1300s by a Jewish scholar who converted to Islam. The Chingiz-nama is an account of the conquests of Akbar’s ancestors, the Mongols, who swept across the Asian continent from Siberia to the Mediterranean Sea during the 1200s. This page describes the final momentous defeat of the caliph of Baghdad, the religious head of Sunni Islam and political leader of the Abbasid dynasty, with the names of all the caliphs who came before him listed in red at the top.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 777
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n139

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IMAGES

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