Drunken Son of a Cobbler Mounted on Bahram Gur's Lion, Folio from an Illustrated Shahnama Manuscript
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Caption
Drunken Son of a Cobbler Mounted on Bahram Gur's Lion, Folio from an Illustrated Shahnama Manuscript, ca. 1480–1490. Ink and opaque watercolors on paper, Sheet: 12 x 8 in. Image: 4 1/2 x 5 in. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Stanley J. Love, 1991.28.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Collection
Title
Drunken Son of a Cobbler Mounted on Bahram Gur's Lion, Folio from an Illustrated Shahnama Manuscript
Date
ca. 1480–1490
Medium
Ink and opaque watercolors on paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 x 8 in. Image: 4 1/2 x 5 in.
Inscriptions
five columns of Persian poetic couplets below and to the side of the illustration. The couplets are written in nasta'liq script.
Credit Line
Gift of Stanley J. Love
Accession Number
1991.28.2
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