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Ruins of Taq-Kasra, near Salman Pak, Iraq

Maker

(artist)

(engraver)

(publisher)
active 1660-1681 (Life dates)

Title

Ruins of Taq-Kasra, near Salman Pak, Iraq

Date of Production

1679

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2909

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

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Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: above the image, black ink, unreadable because cropped; within the image, upper centre, in a cartouche, black ink: “Orthographia Templi Laivanes / ra cuius rudera spectantur adhucThesiphonte quae et Seleucia dicitur ex / Observantione / Petri valle //”. Mount: below the image, centre, typed, black ink: “FLEMISH SCHOOL”; lower left, typed, black ink: “Turris Babel, Amsterdam, 1679.”; centre right, handwritten, graphite: “Ctesiphon”.

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