A seated youth, probably a dervish Persia, late 18th-early 19th...

A seated youth, probably a dervish
Persia, late 18th-early 19th Century
pencil and watercolour on paper, two sections from a manuscript written in nasta'liq script attached at top and bottom edge, laid down on an album page with gold-decorated coloured borders
painting 160 x 95 mm.; with borders 225 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Private collection, London.

The sections of manuscript consist of the last couplet from a ghazal of Hafiz (probably from the Divan) with a variation in two words.

The painting is presumably cut down from a larger composition, since to the right is the partially coloured under-drawing for another seated figure holding a ghalian.

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