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Welch, Stuart Cary; Masteller, Kimberly

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Note on the Catalogue

Stuart Cary Welch, Kimberly Masteller

Description: From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart...

From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection

Note on the Catalogue

Author

Stuart Cary Welch, Kimberly Masteller

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00053.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16832

Note on the Catalogue

DATES, TRANSCRIPTION, AND TRANSLITERATION

The year 1 in the Islamic calendar corresponds to A.D. 622. Throughout the catalogue, dates are given in A.D. years unless otherwise indicated. When A.H. (hijrī) dates are provided, they are placed first.

Persian, Turkish, and Arabic

Foreign words and proper nouns that have entered the language or have a generally recognized English form are anglicized in the text. Place names follow English usage, and false English plurals for Persian, Arabic, and Turkish words are used. Place names and names of historical personages with no English equivalent are transliterated, but aside from ‘ayn (‘) and hamza (’) diacritical marks are omitted. Only quoted passages, titles of published works, and local terminology are fully transliterated. Izāfas have been omitted from the spelling of personal names unless they appear in a transliterated passage.

Arabic and Persian are transliterated according to the system used in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, with the omission of subscript bars and dots and with the substitution of q for k and j for dj. Diphthongs are indicated by aw and ay. For Ottoman Turkish, authors are given the choice of the El system or the use of modern Turkish orthography. In any case, each individual author is responsible for the consistency and accuracy of the system he or she has applied to the transliterations provided; minor variations may therefore appear. Translations are the work of the individual authors unless otherwise indicated.

Sanskrit, Hindi, and Rajasthani

Indian terms from Sanskrit and later Indian languages such as Hindi or Rajasthani are transliterated to the closest approximate spelling, with no diacritical marks except for the macron to indicate long vowels. We have chosen to use the historical spelling for the kingdom of Kotah, which retains the final “h.” Foreign words that have been incorporated into the English language are presented in their modern, popular forms.

GEOGRAPHICAL AND PLACE NAMES

In catalogue captions and entries, the names of modern countries have been used in place of older cultural and dynastic designations. Thus, objects from Persia have been assigned to Iran, Ottoman drawings to Turkey, and Mughal and Indian drawings to North India or Pakistan.

IDENTIFICATION, ATTRIBUTION, AND DATING

Unless otherwise indicated, the attribution and dating of unsigned and undated works of art at the beginning of each catalogue entry are the work of Stuart Cary Welch. Any differences of opinion among the contributors are expressed in the individual entries.

MISCELLANEOUS

The names Welch, Cary Welch, Stuart Cary Welch, and Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., all refer to the same individual.

The dimensions given in the captions for drawings indicate the object size rather than the image size, dimensions of the entire sheet, or, for drawings mounted as album pages, the entire page, including borders.

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BOOKFrom Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection

Stuart Cary Welch, Kimberly Masteller

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00053

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16827

Stuart Cary Welch’s collection of Persian, Turkish, and Indian art is renowned throughout the world for its quality and depth. In 1999, Welch made a generous gift of drawings to the Harvard University Art Museums, which form the basis of the present catalogue. Spanning five centuries and extending from Istanbul to Calcutta, these drawings represent the great empires of the Ottomans in Turkey, the Safavids in Iran, and the Mughals in India as well as numerous regional Hindu kingdoms. This important book presents more than seventy exquisite drawings—some of which are counted among the greatest Indian, Persian, or Turkish drawings ever made—and explores the connections between the arts and artists of the three cultures.

As with drawings from European traditions, the works display an immediacy that is often absent in paintings. The drawings deal with fascinating and diverse subjects ranging from court portraits, stories from fable and myth, and hunting scenes to animals, flowers, and people sketched from life. The contributors to the book shed light on various aspects of the drawings and the artists, and Welch offers an engaging account of his trials and triumphs while acquiring the works in his unparalleled collection.

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Author

Stuart Cary Welch, Kimberly Masteller

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Print publication date September 2004 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300104738

EISBN 9780300243895

Illustrations 133

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