Calligraphy of a Quatrain (verso)
c. 1760
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Calligraphy of a Quatrain (verso), c. 1760. India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century. Ink on paper, four lines of Persian poetry (verso); 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
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Formatted Medium
- ink on paper, four lines of Persian poetry (verso)
- Dimensions
- Page: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- 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.
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 2013.342.b
- Credit Line
- 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
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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