deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Mynah and Lotus 鷯哥荷花圖
Object type: painting
Materials: ink, paper
Location: china
Artist: ren yi
Artist nationality: chinese
Artist dates: 1840 – 1895

Ren Yi was among the most successful and influential among Chinese painters of the so-called Shanghai School. Arriving in Shanghai in 1857, he took the artistic name “bonian” (one-hundred years), claiming that it would take him a century to achieve success. However, by 1875 Ren Yi was the best-known painter in Shanghai. His highly sought-after bird-and-flower paintings initially followed the Song dynasty (960–1279) convention of applying rich color fields within outlines, producing decorative patterning with lifelike representation. This work represents his mature, more spontaneous style that is characterized by looser brushwork, more ink washes, and greater tonal variation.

The mynah bird, known for its perfect imitation of the human voice, was a favorite subject of the influential 17th-century painter Zhu Da (Bada Shanren). Known for his highly individualistic style, Zhu Da was particularly influential among Shanghai painters. The black form of the mynah was ideal for the expressive brushwork known as xieyi (“sketch conceptualism”); and for Zhu Da, the mynah was imbued with a cryptic, highly personal symbolic power. It is unclear whether Ren Yi consciously accessed Zhu Da’s symbolic usage of the bird as a rebuke of Chinese society in this painting. However, as indicated in the inscription, which states that the painting was a gift for a friend and antique shop owner, Ren Yi consciously “imitated” Zhu Da’s style as a tribute to the artist.
Glass square bottle
Object type: bottle, square
Date: 101 – 300
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Translucent blue green; handle in same color. Rim folded out, round, and in, with flaring mouth; cylindrical, slightly concave neck, with tooling marks around base; sloping shoulder with rounded corners; four flat sides, tapering downward; flat but slightly uneven bottom with slight ribbing in parallel lines; claw handle applied to shoulder, drawn up and outward, then turned in horizontally and trailed on to top of neck and underside of rim. Intact; few bubbles; slight pitting, dulling, and iridescence on exterior; patches of creamy weathering on interior.
Capital with Palmettes and Leaves
Object type: capital
Date: 767 – 800
Materials: alabaster, gypsum
Techniques: carving, relief
Location: syria

This capital, carved of soft alabaster, demonstrates the emergence of the distinctive Beveled style from an earlier vegetal style in the early Abbasid period. Classical curled leaf forms on more traditionally decorated capitals gave way to the typical slant-cut and more abstract Beveled style carvings. This capital demonstrates a transition between the two styles.
Le P. D. Libert, S. J.
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1891 – 1896
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Subjects: historical persons
Bottle
Object type: bottle
Date: 401 – 600
Materials: glass
Techniques: glassblowing, tooling
Location: syria
Two Monkeys on Two Peaches
Object type: figure
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: jade
Culture: chinese
Subjects: peaches,monkeys
Saddle Rug
Object type: rug
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: cotton, wool
Culture: chinese
Portret van Johannes Dolaeus
Object type: print
Date: 1670 – 1713
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: pieter schenk (i)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1660 – 1711
Subjects: book, wig
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Johannes Dolaeus, lijfarts van Albertine van Nassau. Hij draagt een lange krulpruik en laat zijn hand rusten op een boek.
The Flagellation
Object type: drawing
Date: 1467 – 1500
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: brush, heightening, wash
Artist: lombardy (?)
Artist role: artist
Artist dates: 1470 – 1499
Subjects: men,christ

Evoking the solemnity of his pose and expression, Christ’s head and torso are delicately modeled in a sfumato technique of softly blended tones – in marked contrast to the more linear and less finished treatment of his lower body and that of his assailants. The drawing may have been produced by a Lombard draftsman, as the sfumato technique evokes the influence of Leonardo da Vinci and his followers, or an artist from elsewhere in Northern Italy. This sheet was among Robert Lehman’s first drawing purchases, acquired at an auction sale in 1923.
Buste van Bradamante
Object type: print
Date: 1550 – 1599
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: italy
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: helmet, male characters from 'orlando furioso' : use 82a(...)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 11, inscription: ‘T. 136.’, number: ‘14’

Buste van Bradamante, een karakter uit Ludovico Ariosto's epos 'Orlando Furioso'. Op haar hoofd draagt zij een helm gedecoreerd met een pluim van veren. Rechtsboven de titel en acht Italiaanse versregels uit het epos.
Wedding stockings
Object type: wedding stocking
Date: 1843 – 1843
Materials: silk
Culture: american
Interieur met vrolijk gezelschap rond een tafel
Object type: drawing
Date: 1624 – 1677
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: willem van herp (i)
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1614 – 1677
Subjects: celebration meal, feast, banquet, prostitution, private festivities, merry company
Hematite intaglio: Isis and Harpocrates
Object type: intaglio, magical
Date: 201 – 300
Materials: mineral, jasper
Culture: roman
Subjects: isis
Panel
Object type: panel
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: metal thread, silk, velvet
Misericorde met twee figuren in een schip in de Oude Kerk te Amsterdam
Object type: print
Date: 1880 – 1929
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: misericords, tow-boat, towing-barge
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap / Amsterdam’, collector's mark: ‘31,160’ Lugt 1641b

Rechtsboven genummerd: 17. Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Kerkwezen: Hervormde Gemeente: Oude Kerk, koorgestoelte.
Two Borders Joined
Object type: textile
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: gilt, linen, metal, silk, thread
Techniques: cutting, embroidery, drawing, embroidered, weave, stitching
Location: turkey
Vrolijk gezelschap van drie figuren
Object type: print
Date: 1847 – 1889
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Location: germany
Subjects: private festivities, merry company
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Isabella
Object type: painting
Date: 1906 – 1906
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: simon maris
Artist role: painter
Artist dates: 1873 – 1935
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman
Inscriptions: signature: ‘Simon Maris’

In creating this portrait, Maris first took photographs of the young girl as reference material. Thanks to those pictures and other documents in Maris’ archive, we know the girl was about twelve years old when she posed for him. Maris made several portraits of her, some bearing the title Isabella, including this painting. This was possibly not her real name, as models commonly used aliases.
Bust Portrait of a Woman wearing a Hooded Mantle
Object type: print
Date: 1701 – 1800
Techniques: etching
Artist: françois boucher
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1703 – 1770
Subjects: portraits,women
Vulcanus, Venus en Amor
Object type: plaque
Date: 1500 – 1550
Materials: bronze
Techniques: casting
Location: padua
Artist: Anonymous

Eenzijdige bronzen plaquette. Voorzijde: Vulcanus met voorhamer in geheven rechterhand, Amor en Venus met boog in hand, zittend rondom aanbeeld binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: blanco.
Ruiters, mogelijk soldaten
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1881 – 1883
Materials: chalk, paper, pencil
Location: the hague
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, division of armed forces (+ land forces)

Pagina 31 uit een schetsboek met 19 bladen.
Tocht van de Leidse Schutterij naar Grave, 1622
Object type: print
Date: 1622 – 1622
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: the hague, maurice (prince of orange), troop movements, transportation, grave

De acht schepen waarin de schutterij de tocht naar Grave heeft gemaakt, liggend voor anker in de Waal, 26 september 1622. Onderdeel van een serie van 3 prenten van de tocht van de schutterij van Leiden naar Grave om de stad bezet te houden zodat Maurits ter ontzet naar Bergen op Zoom op kan trekken. Zonder de verzen onder de plaat.
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1867 – 1930
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, printing, writing
Location: the hague
Artist: m. de luette dalphin
Artist role: schrijver
Subjects: the hague, painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken, the graphic arts
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Rafaël Bijbel
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1675 – 1675
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: rome
Subjects: division of light and darkness
Inscriptions: number: ‘125’

Prent maakt deel uit van een reeks van 55 prenten, bestaande uit drie ongenummerde prenten en een set van 52 genummerde prenten naar de schilderingen in de Loggia van Rafaël.
Shuttle (navette)
Object type: shuttle
Date: 1764 – 1765
Materials: enamel, gold
Artist: mathieu coiny fils
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1723 – 1823
Icones Illvstrivm Feminarvm Novi Testamenti
Object type: print
Date: 1783 – 1783
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: meeting of anna and joachim at the golden gate; they usually embrace or kiss each other (immaculate conception of mary), anna, mother of mary; possible attributes: book, christ-child, lily, virgin mary

Prent in: s.n. Aldernouwkeurigste verhandelinge der geschiedenissen van het Nieuw Testament (...). Antwerpen: Cornelis Marten Spanoghe, 1783, p. 16-17.
Verzameling bladeren van Mikido
Object type: book
Date: 1934 – 1934
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut, letterpress printing
Location: kyoto
Artist: yamaguchi hachikushi
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1890 – 1933
Inscriptions: date
Roei-, steiger- en schuitenvoerdersgilde van Amsterdam, gildepenning van Dirck Klaasse, ligplaats Nieuwe Brug
Object type: medal
Date: 1714 – 1714
Materials: metal alloy
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: amsterdam

Penning met gat erin. Voorzijde: naar links varende zeilboot; op achterplecht: zittende man en vlag. Keerzijde: opschrift monogram van letters D en K tussen letters N en B.
A Short History of General J. C. Pemberton, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: firearms,men,portraits,generals

Trade cards from the "Histories of Generals" series (N114), issued in 1888 by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco.
Scène in een restaurant
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1999
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: restaurant
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Foto van het schilderij Het restaurant van Cornelis Troost uit de Hermitage te Petersburg. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Zeden en gewoonten in engeren zin, Volksleven, Uitspanningslokalen, Herberg.
Tea service for two people (tête-à-tête)
Object type: teapot
Date: 1778 – 1782
Materials: porcelain
Location: loosdrecht
Subjects: cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers

Manufactuur Oud-Loosdrecht
Loosdrecht, c. 1778–1782
hard-paste porcelain
Replica of 18in. Naval Gun, with Projectiles and Charges
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1918 – 1936
Materials: paper
Techniques: rotogravure
Location: great britain
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: weapons, london
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Crown Copyright in letterpress and illustrations reserved.’
L'église de Stans, Suisse.
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1850 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: stans
Artist: william england
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1816 – 1896
Subjects: church (exterior)
Inscriptions: number: ‘320.’, inscription: ‘Views of Switzerland, photographed by W. England. (Registered) Under the Special Patronage of the Alpine Club.’
Installatie van de Academie francaise 1672
Object type: history medal
Date: 1672 – 1672
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking
Artist: jean mauger
Artist role: medailleur
Artist dates: 1648 – 1722

Koperen penning, op de voorzijde het portret van Koning Lodewijk XIV naar rechts met omschrift, op de keerzijde Apollo staand met zijn lier op een driepoot met op de achtergrond het Académiegebouw, met omschrift en afsnedetekst.
Saterfamilie spelend met luipaarden
Object type: print
Date: 1645 – 1669
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: haarlem
Subjects: beasts of prey, predatory animals: leopard, satyr(s) (in general)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Een saterfamilie speelt met luipaarden. Een mannelijke sater tilt een jong luipaard op en een vrouwelijke sater aait een groot luipaard. Een andere sater houdt een tros druiven in de hand.
Chessmen (32)
Object type: chessman
Date: 1750 – 1775
Materials: bone
Subjects: chess,games
Rokende boerin met pijp en test
Object type: print
Date: 1696 – 1727
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: matthijs pool
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1676 – 1740
Subjects: pipe ~ tobacco, farmers
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een boerin zit op een kruk en lacht. In haar handen heeft zij een pijp en een testje met een kooltje vuur. In het kader onder de voorstelling een spotgedicht.
[Boy Seated Cross-legged, Partially Covered by Blanket, Leaning Against Cushion]
Object type: daguerreotype
Date: 1850 – 1859
Techniques: daguerreotype
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: boys,portraits
Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)
Object type: oinochoe fragment
Date: 510 – 500
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Bit of the lower drapery and foot of a woman to right
Pastry knife
Object type: pastry knife
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: brass, ivory, steel
Subjects: women
Vrouw met mantel
Object type: print
Date: 1828 – 1828
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: cape (+ women's clothes)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Vrouw met lange cape met capuchon, gevoerd met bont, haar rechteram naar binnen gestoken. Prent uit een serie van twaalf prenten met studies van menselijke figuren.
Jona voorspelt de ondergang van Nineve
Object type: print
Date: 1712 – 1712
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jan luyken
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1649 – 1712
Subjects: when jonah arrives in the city of nineveh he foretells its destruction in forty days
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Variant op illustratie voor: Luyken, Jan. Bybel printen. Amsterdam: Pieter Arentsz. II (wed.) en Cornelis van der Sys, 1712, p. 17.
Lamp
Object type: lamp
Date: 1201 – 1400
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Location: egypt

This heavily potted lamp contains a closed reservoir that would have held burning oil and a wick. Soaked in the oil and lighted, the wick would transport the fuel to the flame. Similar ceramic lamps were common in Egypt in the thirteenth to fourteenth century, together with other examples in which the reservoir is placed on a stem.
Portretten uit het Ipswich Museum
Object type: print
Date: 1852 – 1852
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: london
Subjects: london, earl, adult man, historical persons, study; 'studiolo'; library, book
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, check stamp: ‘Ipswich Museum’

Prent behoort tot de serie 'Ipswich Museum Portraits', ook bekend onder de titel 'Portraits of Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum'. Deze serie is in 1852 door George Ransome uitgegeven en gedrukt door M&N Hanhart tussen 1848 en 1852. De serie bestaat uit ca. 60 portretten.
Figure fragment
Object type: sculpture
Materials: bronze
Culture: canaanite
Location: syria
Subjects: faces
Wild Animals, from antique wall paintings, plate 2, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Object type: print
Date: 1567 – 1600
Techniques: engraving
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: boars,elephants,lions
Mrs. George Baldwin (Jane Maltass, 1763–1839)
Object type: painting
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: sir joshua reynolds
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1723 – 1792
Subjects: portraits,women
Dish Depicting a Woman Bust and Floral Decoration
Object type: dish
Date: 1601 – 1650
Materials: glaze, stonepaste
Techniques: painting, polychrome
Location: iran
Subjects: women
Daruma in a Boat with an Attendant
Object type: print
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: nishiki e, woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: suzuki harunobu
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1725 – 1770
Subjects: men,women,boats

A young woman poles a boat for a man wearing a red, hooded robe who leans over the side of the boat and uses his reflection to pluck stray hairs from his scruffy beard. This is an unusual display of vanity for Bodhidharma, who is traditionally shown crossing the Yangzi River on a reed that he plucked from the bank on his way to spread Zen teachings in China. Parodies of Bodhidharma (Japanese: Daruma) were common in the Edo period, when some unregulated sex workers were colloquially dubbed daruma in winking reference to the rhythms of their working lives being like the years Daruma spent meditating in a cave.
Twaalf kunstplaten voorstellende de gevolgen en de belooning van ondeugd en deugd
Object type: wrapper
Date: 1837 – 1840
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Artist: Anonymous

Op de achterkant de titels van de twaalf prenten met een toelichting.
Gurnet's Head
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: gouache, paint, paper, watercolor
Location: england
Artist: imitator of joseph mallord william turner
Mouth of Akhenaten or Nefertiti
Object type: akhenaten or nefertiti, mouth
Date: 1353 – 1336
Materials: quartzite
Location: egypt
Subjects: mouths
Terracotta spindle whorl
Object type: spindle whorl
Date: 2000 – 1725
Materials: terracotta
Culture: cypriot
Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna
Object type: print
Date: 1708 – 1708
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: stockholm
Subjects: maps of separate countries or regions
Inscriptions: date

Kungliga Biblioteket, 'Suecia': http://www.kb.se/samlingarna/Kartor-bilder/Suecia-antiqua/ (geraadpleegd november 2016).
Moccasins
Object type: moccasin
Date: 1830 – 1830
Materials: textile, cotton, dye, glass, leather, metal, ribbon, silk
Techniques: tanning
Culture: muscogee or creek
Location: united states
Fräulein Zimmermann, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 1), issued ca. 1888 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights, Dixie, Our Little Beauties and Opera Puffs Cigarettes.
Brillenverkoper bij een oude vrouw
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1647 – 1652
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: haarlem
Artist: adriaen van ostade
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1610 – 1685
Subjects: eyeglasses, spectacles, old woman, wandering or travelling merchant

Een brillenverkoper met een mand vol brillen staat voor het huis van een oude vrouw. Zij leunt op de onderdeur. Een kind met een mand kijkt toe. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Banditti Taking His Post
Object type: print
Date: 1767 – 1800
Techniques: etching
Artist: john hamilton mortimer
Artist role: artist and publisher
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1740 – 1779
Subjects: spears,men
Beaker with Battle Scene
Object type: glass
Date: 1730 – 1730
Materials: glass, gold leaf
Techniques: engraving
Location: bohemia
Peasant Jewellery. Rome and Latium
Object type: photograph
Date: 1863 – 1868
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornaments, jewels, necklace, ear-rings
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘South Kensington/ Science and art department’, collector's mark: ‘Corporation of Birkenhead/ schools of science and art’
Stoomlocomotief Cania 1
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1868 – 1890
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: collodion silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: railway, train, steam locomotive
Fragment of Sleeve
Object type: textile fragment
Date: 101 – 300
Materials: linen, wool
Techniques: weave
Location: egypt
Gezicht op Spiez met de Thunersee
Object type: photograph
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: spiez
Artist: jean moeglé
Artist role: fotograaf, hofleverancier
Artist dates: 1853 – 1938
Subjects: lake, landscape with tower or castle, city-view in general; 'veduta' (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘1897’, inscription: ‘148. Spiez, de l'Hôtel Schonegg (Suisse)/ J. Moegle, Thoune’
Samurai
Object type: painting
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: ink, paper
Location: japan
Artist: iwasa matabei
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1578 – 1650
Kop van een muilezel
Object type: print
Date: 1867 – 1935
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching, intaglio
Artist: maurits van der valk
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1935
Subjects: mule
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Landschap met figuur in het water bij een roeiboot
Object type: print
Date: 1846 – 1846
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: rowing-boat, canoe, etc., wading, paddling
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Landschap met bomengroep en op de voorgrond een figuur in het water bij een roeiboot. Op de achtergrond twee zittende figuren bij een paard.
Print
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: utagawa kunisada
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1786 – 1864
Subjects: birds,women,flowers
Schotel, behorend bij een servies versierd met lintmotief met bladeren, bloemboeketten en gestrooide bloemtakken
Object type: platter
Date: 1780 – 1820
Materials: porcelain
Location: amsterdam

Schotel van porselein, behorend bij een servies van porselein versierd met een geslingerd lintmotief in paars en goud met groene bladertakken, bloemboeketten en gestrooide bloemtakken. Randen licht gegolfd, met decoratie in goud met paars bladmotief waartussen groen gekruist bladmotief. Gemerkt: M.O.L. en Amstel.
A blind hurdy-gurdy player and family receiving alms
Object type: print
Date: 1648 – 1648
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Artist: rembrandt van rijn
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1606 – 1669
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228 a, signature and date: ‘Rembrandt f. 1648’
Double Album Leaf with Calligraphic Exercise by Fath 'Ali Shah
Object type: non illustrated album leaf
Date: 1801 – 1850
Materials: gold, ink, paper, watercolor
Location: iran
Artist: fath 'ali shah
Artist role: calligrapher
Artist nationality: iranian
"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Object type: album leaf
Materials: gold, ink, paper, watercolor
Location: india
Artist: manohar
Artist role: artist
Artist dates: 1577 – 1624
Subjects: animals,flowers,leaves

The squarish format of this painting of a black buck, attributed to the artist Manohar, required filling the extra space within the "window" of the border, adroitly accomplished with two leaves of poetry, possibly taken from a type of narrow oblong manuscript known as a safina. The lower page, signed by the Persian master Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi in the triangular box at the right, contains verse by the great poet Jami. Manohar painted several versions of this subject for the emperor, who mentions his fondness for his favorite decoy black buck in his memoirs.