Turkoman Prisoner

Unknown

ca. 1610 · Ink and transparent watercolor on paper · Islamic Art

Numerous paintings and drawings of a Turkman prisoner with his hand and head in a type of stock, known as a 'palahang', were produced from the early 16th to the early 17th century. Here the figure is armed only with a dagger, not the sword, bow, arrows and mace of the prisoners in earlier versions. The windswept clouds, light brown, grey and white washes and calligraphic line of this drawing owe a debt to Riza–yi 'Abbasi, who worked in this style in the first decade of the 17th century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1610

Medium

Ink and transparent watercolor on paper

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Louis V. Bell Fund, 1967