Miniature représentant un combat entre un dragon et un dromadaire, Iran ou Turquie, XVIIIE siècle

encre sur velin, renforcé au dos, dans un encadrement en papier cartonné

In Colour : the catalogue illustration is accurate There are folds and a few repairs to the vellum There are two small areas of retouching to the black
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Drawings depicting dragons derived from Chinese art and inspired Timurid, Turkman and later Persan artists with design and stylistic variations. From the sixteenth century this theme reached the Ottoman Turkey as well. The stylistic features of our drawing seem to be later than the 17^th century Safavid or Ottoman dragon drawings. A comparable example is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (1975.192.6)