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Calligraphy of Lyrical Quatrains (verso)
mid-1700s
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Dimensions
- calligraphy: 17 x 9.6 cm (6 11/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Mughal India, probably Lucknow
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Floral sprigs illuminate the central calligraphic work, and paired verses have been written in smaller script all around the border. All the verses are about the beauty of—and longing for—the beloved.
