id:			170870
accession number:	2013.342.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.342.b
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:36.774000

Calligraphy of a Quatrain (verso), c. 1760. India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; page: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.342.b

title:				Calligraphy of a Quatrain (verso)
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creation date:			c. 1760
creation date earliest:		1755
creation date latest:		1765
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creditline:			Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
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culture:	India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century
technique:	Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Mughal
type:		Calligraphy
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measurements: Page: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Persian verse in nasta‘liq script: 
Your eyes have shed so much blood in the world at large/ 
That around your home corpses are strewn together in disorderly piles./ 
A hundred thousand faces were cast into molds of loveliness and beauty/ 
But rarely came out stamped as comely as you.
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PROVENANCE

	(Olsen Foundation, Bridgeport, CT, sold to Ralph Benkaim)
	date: 1950s-September 1966
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	(Ralph Benkaim [1914-2001] and Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold  to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1966-2013
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2013-
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