id: 148833 accession number: 1976.74 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.74 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:40.138000 Alamshah cleaving asunder the chain of the wheel, from volume 11 of a Hamza-nama (Adventures of Hamza), c. 1560s–70s. Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on cotton and paper; page: 83.7 x 67 cm (32 15/16 x 26 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George P. Bickford 1976.74 title: Alamshah cleaving asunder the chain of the wheel, from volume 11 of a Hamza-nama (Adventures of Hamza) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1560s–70s creation date earliest: 1555 creation date latest: 1585 current location: creditline: Gift of George P. Bickford copyright: --- culture: Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605) technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on cotton and paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Page: 83.7 x 67 cm (32 15/16 x 26 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review, 1976 opening date: 1977-02-01T05:00:00 Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977). title: The Year in Review for 1982 opening date: 1983-01-05T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). title: The Adventures of Hamza opening date: 2002-06-21T00:00:00 The Adventures of Hamza. National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (June 21-September 29, 2002); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (November 1, 2002-January 26, 2003). title: Art and Stories from Mughal India opening date: 2016-07-31T04:00:00 Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016). title: Martial Art of India (Indian Painting rotation) opening date: 2022-02-11T05:00:00 Martial Art of India (Indian Painting rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 21, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 31, 2013–June 30, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2013-12-31T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Tabbagh date: footnotes: citations: George Bickford [1901–1991] and Clara Louise Gehring Bickford [1903–1985], Cleveland Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1976 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1976– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1976.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 2 (February 1977): 39–78. page number: Mentioned: p. 79, no. 149; Reproduced: p. 60 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152676 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. 303 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n323 Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. page number: cat. no. 10 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 170-171 url: Sporre, Dennis J. The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 327, no. 11.8 url: Seyller, John William, and W. M. Thackston. The Adventures of Hamza: Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, 2002. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 51, pp.162-163, R78, p. 266 url: Sporre, Dennis J. The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 332, no. 11.19 url: Douglass, Scott, and Dennis J. Sporre. The Creative Impulse. Seventh Edition. Seventh Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2006. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 322, fig. 10.18 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 174-175 url: Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie. "From the Fifth Vizier's Story to the Gifts of Timur: Mughal Paintings by Sravana in the Cleveland Museum of Art." Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, November/December 2013, pp. 13-18. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 5 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 211–212 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 35 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.74/1976.74_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.74/1976.74_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.74/1976.74_full.tif