Singing bird

Object Details

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Riza-i Abbasi Album (May 10, 1985 to September 3, 1985)

  The Brush of the Masters: Drawings from Iran (October 14, 1978 to May 30, 1979)

  Collection of Friedrich and Maria Sarre (1932)

  Die Ausstellung Islamischer Buchkunst im Berliner "Art of the Islamic Book" (February to April, 1910)

  Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Mohammedanischer Kunst in München (May to October 1910)

• Origin

  Probably Isfahan, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Drawing

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Place

  Isfahan

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Animals, Arts of the Islamic World, Birds

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Drawings