A FORLORN MENDICANT

SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

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A FORLORN MENDICANT
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Grisaille brush drawing on paper, the mendicant or dervish holds his begging bowl as he curls around the trunk of a tree with birds flying overhead, a later added inscription attributing the work to Reza 'Abbasi, laid down on wide polychrome margins, minor losses to the folio on the right-hand margin
Illustration 7 x 3 7/8in. (17.6 x 10cm.); folio 14¾ x 9½in. (37.5 x 24cm.)

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Inscription: The signature probably added reads, dar qazvin tarh-e in shodeh bud va dar sefahan ba'd az si sal dar ruz-e chaharshanbeh hashtom (?)-e shahr-e shavval .. iqbal sana [10]41 be-rang shod raqam-e kamineh reza 'abbasi, 'This was designed in Qazvin and was coloured 30 years later in Isafahan on Wednesday 8th (?) of the month of Shawwal ... fortune, year [10]41. Drawing of the humble Reza 'Abbasi'