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"Battle Scene", Folio from a Zafarnama (Book of Victories) of Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi

Sharaf al-din 'Ali Yazdi

Date

1485–86

Medium

Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Painting: H. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm) W. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) Page: H. 12 in. (30.5 cm) W. 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

present-day Afghanistan

Object number

43.138

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1943

Gallery

455

The Met object ID 450512. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.