Title: Calligraphic Composition
Date: 19th century
Location: Ottoman Turkey
Materials: red pigment on a horse chestnut leaf
Dimensions: length 24.5cm
Accession Number: CAL 165
Other Notes:
The text, part of verse 64 from surah Yusuf (XII), reads: ‘But God is the best to take care [of him], and He is the Most Merciful of those who show mercy.’
The red pigment maybe gouache, minimum or led lead.
Script:
written in thulth script
Bibliography:
N.F. Safwat, The Art of the Pen. Calligraphy of the 14th to 20th Centuries, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume V, London 1996, cat.144, pp.205 and 207.
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