David J. Roxburgh (ed.). An Album of Artists’ Drawings from Qajar Iran

Abstract

This lavish volume may be the first monograph to have been dedicated to Qajar drawings and sketches. Therefore, while the book apparently revolves around a single album (Harvard Art Museums / Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund, 1960.161), readers will soon recognise its more general underlying objective throughout the chapters, i.e., the place of drawing in the repertoire of Qajar art. The impressive size of the book ensures that the reproduction of each folio appears at ...