Calligraphic Composition

Date: 19th century

Location: Ottoman Turkey

Materials: ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper; mounted on card, within borders of embossed paper ribbon

Dimensions: 30 x 31.2cm

Accession Number: CAL 353

Other Notes:

The name ‘Muhammad’ is written in mirrored thulth script, and filled with Qur'anic verses in ghubar.

Script:

written in mirrored thulth and ghubar scripts

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.134, pp.192–3.