The bagpipe player (drawing, recto; calligraphy, verso)

Aqa Riza (active ca. 1580-ca. 1610) (follower or school of)

Shāh Mahmud al-Nishāpuri (ca. 1486–1565)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1600

Height:

35.5 cm  (14 in.)

Width:

23.0 cm  (9 1/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

black ink and watercolor on off-white paper

Place of creation:

Eşfahān (Īrān)

School:

Safavid

Description

Description from museum website:
This drawing depicts a middle-aged man sitting on a rock and playing a bagpipe [possibly a ney-anbān]; clouds, tinted in blue, appear at the upper left corner. The man is hunched over his musical instrument, holding it close to his body. He gazes into the distance, his eyebrows tense with concentration as he blows air into the bagpipe.

Iconclass

48CC7525
one person playing wind instrument - CC - out of doors
48CC7354
bagpipe, musette - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746] (possibly a ney-anbān)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Safavid period album folio; calligraphy (verso) attributed to Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri, Persian.
Inscriptions and Marks from museum website:
inscription: Translation of Persian verses on verso by Sunil Sharma:
"What are paradise and houris? Everything appears fine from afar. My glance is only for you, I don't look at houris and angels. Lifeless, in separation I am sorrowful, [while] my enemies are rejoicing in assemblies of union" "Written by the slave Shah Mahmud"

RIdIM record id

5771