The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
Album Leaf with Calligraphic Exercise (siyah mashq)
Asadullah Shirazi
- Date
- dated A.H. 1258/ 1842–3 CE
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H. 18 7/8 in. (48 cm) W. 13 in. (33 cm)
- Object type
- Album leaf, non-illustrated
- Classification
- Codices
- Country
- Iran
- Object number
- 2016.536
- Credit line
- Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2016
Artist information
Iranian (active 1830s–50s)
Subjects and terms
- Calligraphy
The Met object ID 716307. 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.