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Young man in Ottoman dress (recto), and prince in a garden pavilion (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Title	Young man in Ottoman dress (recto), and prince in a garden pavilion (verso), folio from an Ottoman album
Publication Date:	c. 1620
Type	Document
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	417 mm x 272 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	T 439.5
Library Location	Turkish collection
Date	c. 1620
Notes	Young man in Ottoman dress (recto), and prince in a garden pavilion (verso), folio from an Ottoman album. Across Iran, India and Turkey, from the sixteenth century at least, albums (or muraqqa`) had become an important way of storing and presenting one's diverse collection of artworks on paper: valuable specimens of calligraphy, single-page paintings or drawings, and even European prints or Chinese paintings, all re-mounted in a careful sequence. This album was compiled in early seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, probably for a private citizen. Album-page, ink, colours and gold on paper, mounted on gold-flecked card, two paintings, one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: young man in a white kaftan and red cloak, mounted in gold-painted floral border, set on larger gold-flecked album-page. Verso: young man seated with musicians and attendants in a garden pavilion, mounted in gold-painted floral border, set on larger gold-flecked album-page.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

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Young man in Ottoman dress (recto), and prince in a garden pavilion (verso), folio from an Ottoman album

Publication Date c. 1620

Type Document

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 417 mm x 272 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID T 439.5

Library Location Turkish collection

Date c. 1620

Notes Young man in Ottoman dress (recto), and prince in a garden pavilion (verso), folio from an Ottoman album. Across Iran, India and Turkey, from the sixteenth century at least, albums (or muraqqa`) had become an important way of storing and presenting one's diverse collection of artworks on paper: valuable specimens of calligraphy, single-page paintings or drawings, and even European prints or Chinese paintings, all re-mounted in a careful sequence. This album was compiled in early seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul, probably for a private citizen. Album-page, ink, colours and gold on paper, mounted on gold-flecked card, two paintings, one of twelve detached folios from an Ottoman album, assembled Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1620. Recto: young man in a white kaftan and red cloak, mounted in gold-painted floral border, set on larger gold-flecked album-page. Verso: young man seated with musicians and attendants in a garden pavilion, mounted in gold-painted floral border, set on larger gold-flecked album-page.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)