Original caption on verso reads, "Alep. Madr. al-Kamiliyya. .... pl.128."
Aleppo (Syria): Madrasa al-Kamiliyya, Entrance Portal: Plan, Elevation and Section of the Vault with Muqarnas Ornamentation [drawing]
Arrangement:
Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.
Local Numbers:
D-36
FSA A.6 05.0036
General:
- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld original drawings'caption and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
The monuments and inscriptions of Northern Syria were surveyed and collected between 1908 and 1914 by Moritz Sobernheim and Ernst Herzfeld as part of a broader project, sponsored by the Institut de France, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum." The drawings are related to this survey as well as additional expeditions to Aleppo (Syria) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1930.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
"The photo depicts a painting, which is copied off the famous painting of the party of Shah Abbas I and Vali Muhammad Khan, the Uzbek king of Turkistan who was given sanctuary in Safavid court, in the Audience Hall of Chihil Sutun palace. The writing on top of the painting has a specific date for the painting of the image (1912) and the name of the painter (Naqash-Bashi Simurghi) who apparently painted the image based on the painting in Chihil Sutun on the orders of the governor of Isfahan and in its Dar al-Khalafa. The palace, located inside the garden complex of Chihil Sutun, was built on the orders of Shah Abbas I (b.1571-d.1621) and heavily expanded during the reign of Shah Abbas II (b.1643-d.1666). The name of the palace - 'forty columns' - derives not from the actual number of columns in the palace's deep front balcony, but commonly refers to the number of the columns and their reflections in the front pool. The palace also houses one of the largest collections of Iranian mural paintings." [Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Curatorial Research Assistant]
- Handwritten information on slip of paper (from a 1943-1944 cash book, produced by the Bathni Brothers, Tehran) reads, "294) Painting from Chihil Situn." [Myron Bement Smith Collection, Subseries 2.1: Islamic Archives History, Collection Information]
- Myron Bement Smith handwritten caption in English reads, "47.P; Box 27.4: Painting from Chihil Sutun, Isfahan (# 294)." [Myron Bement Smith Collection, Subseries 2.1: Islamic Archives History, Collection Information; Box 60; Folder 44: 47 P: Antoine Sevruguin, glass negatives, Iran]
Arrangement:
According to Myron B. Smith handwritten document (Myron Bement Smith Collection, Subseries 2.1: Islamic Archives History, Collection Information; Box 60; Folder 44: 47 P Antoine Sevruguin, glass negatives, Iran), Antoin Sevruguin's 696 glass negatives, at the time of their acquisition, were arranged into 61 boxes without any apparent organization. Today they are housed in archival document boxes, essentially duplicating the original arrangement, and stored on shelves. This glass negative was included into "Box 27."
Biographical / Historical:
Antoin Sevruguin is one of the early pioneers of commercial photography in Iran. He arrived in Iran from Tbilisi, Georgia in the mid 1870s to set up shop in Ala al-Dawla street in Tehran. From the early days, Sevruguin's studio was trusted both by the Qajar court and by foreign visitors to Iran. Highly regarded for their artistic ingenuity outside Iran, Sevruguin's photographs of 'ethnic types,' architecture and landscape, and depictions of daily life of Tehran found their way into foreign travelogues, magazines and books. As such, he stands alone in a relatively large group of early Iranian photographers for being recognized and celebrated outside the boundaries of the country. Antoin Sevruguin passed away in 1933, leaving behind only a fraction of his large collection of glass negatives, which is currently in the Archives of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Local Numbers:
FSA A.4 2.12.GN.27.04
General:
Title and summary note are provided by Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, FSg curatorial research specialist.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form:
Glass negatives
Collection Citation:
The Myron Bement Smith Collection, FSA A.04. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith.
Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.
Collection Citation:
The Elizabeth Moynihan Collection, FSA A2013.06. National Museum of Asian Art. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Elizabeth Moynihan, 2013.
Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 10, vol. 1 reads, "Bisṭām, Inner surface of vault."
Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.8: Photo File 10 (2 vols.), "Persian Architecture and Landscapes," Subseries 4.10.1: vol. 1; Image No. 50 (Negative Number: 2941). Bistam, Shrine of Bayazid. Looking up at vault."
Arrangement:
Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves."
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.2941
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 10, vol. 1 reads, "Bisṭām. Entrance to the Shrine of Bayazid."
Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.8: Photo File 10 (2 vols.), "Persian Architecture and Landscapes," Subseries 4.10.1: vol. 1; Image No. 44 (Negative Number: 3003). Bistam. Mausoleum. Entrance, Shrine of Bayazid."
Arrangement:
- Glass Negatives, chronogically numbered from 1 to 5,075, originally stored in 80 wooden boxes of approximately 50 photographs each, are housed in document boxes and stored on shelves.
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.3003
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 10, vol. 1 reads, "Bisṭām. Entrance to the Shrine of Bayazid."
Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.8: Photo File 10 (2 vols.), "Persian Architecture and Landscapes," Subseries 4.10.1: vol. 1; Image No. 45 (Negative Number: 3004). Bistam. Mausoleum. Entrance, Shrine of Bayazid."
Arrangement:
- Glass Negatives, chronogically numbered from 1 to 5,075, originally stored in 80 wooden boxes of approximately 50 photographs each, are housed in document boxes and stored on shelves.
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.3004
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 10, vol. 1 reads, "Tūs."
Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.10: Photo File 10 (2 vols.), "Persian Architecture and Landscapes," Subseries 4.10.1: vol. 1; Image No. 118 (Negative Number: 2986). Tus. Entrance of same tomb."
Additional information from Staff reads, "Paper squeezes applied on tombstone inscriptions. The paper squeeze, FSA A.6 06.A011, FSA A.6 06.A011a, FSA A.6 06.A011b, are preserved in the Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 6: Paper Squeezes of Inscriptions."
Arrangement:
Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves."
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.2986
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Linjan District (Iran): Pir-i Bakran Mausoleum, Rear Wall of Large Iwan: View of Screen Wall Defining the Tomb Chamber which Open Gallery Above is Topped by a Muqarnas Dome
Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 12 reads, "Samaria."
Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.12: Photo File 12, "Syrian Inscriptions:" Image No. 67 (Negative Number: 3603). Samaria, palace or museum. Ornate, columned niche with display of 19th-20th c. Japanese ceramics."
Additional information from staff reads, "Negative is missing."
Arrangement:
Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves."
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.3603
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
As early as 1893, Ernst Herzfeld, Moritz Sobernheim, and Max Freiherr von Oppenheim participated in Max Van Berchem's project to create a Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum. During the following 25 years, research materials such as glass negatives, photographic prints, drawings, maps, and notebooks were circulating among the four archaeologists. In the case of this glass negative, it may have been taken by Moritz Sobernheim on a visit to Damascus between 1899 and 1905.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 12 reads, "Samaria."
Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.12: Photo File 12, "Syrian Inscriptions:" Image No. 69 (Negative Number: 3604). Samaria, palace or museum. Ornate, columned niche with display of 19th-20th c. Japanese ceramics."
Additional information from staff reads, "Negative is missing."
Arrangement:
Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves."
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.3604
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
As early as 1893, Ernst Herzfeld, Moritz Sobernheim, and Max Freiherr von Oppenheim participated in Max Van Berchem's project to create a Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum. During the following 25 years, research materials such as glass negatives, photographic prints, drawings, maps, and notebooks were circulating among the four archaeologists. In the case of this glass negative, it may have been taken by Moritz Sobernheim on a visit to Damascus between 1899 and 1905.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Citadel of Aleppo (Syria): Ayyubid Palace of Sultan Zahir al-Ghazi: View of the Entrance Portal with Muqarnas and Arabic Inscription No. 72, in Naskhi Mameluke Script
- Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 15, vol. 1 reads, "Gate of palace of al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad."
- Publication Caption accompanying Plate L, a. reads, "Pl. L, a. Portail du palais d'al-ʿAziz Muḥammad." [Herzfeld, Ernst. "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, Deuxième Partie : Syrie du Nord, Inscriptions et Monuments d'Alep. Tome II. Le Caire; Imprimerie de L'Institut Franc̦ais d'Archaéologie Orientale, 1954. Plate L, a."]
- Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.15: Photo File 15 (3 vols.), "Aleppo," Subseries 4.15.1: vol. 1; Image No. 82 (Negative Number: 3294). Citadel. Gate, palace of al-Aziz Muhammad. Corpus p1.La."
Arrangement:
Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves."
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.3294
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
The monuments and inscriptions of Northern Syria were surveyed and collected between 1908 and 1914 by Moritz Sobernheim and Ernst Herzfeld as part of a broader project, sponsored by the Institut de France, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum." The drawings are related to this survey as well as additional expeditions to Aleppo (Syria) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1930.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Citadel of Aleppo (Syria): the Ayyubid Palace of Sultan Zahir al-Ghazi: View of the Entrance Portal with Muqarnas and Arabic Inscription No. 72, in Naskhi Mameluke Script
- Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 15, vol. 1 reads, "Gate of palace of al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad."
- Publication Caption accompanying Plate L, a. reads, "Pl. L, a. Portail du palais d'al-ʿAziz Muḥammad." [Herzfeld, Ernst. "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, Deuxième Partie : Syrie du Nord, Inscriptions et Monuments d'Alep. Tome II. Le Caire; Imprimerie de L'Institut Franc̦ais d'Archaéologie Orientale, 1954. Plate L, a."]
- Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.15: Photo File 15 (3 vols.), "Aleppo," Subseries 4.15.1: vol. 1; Image No. 81 (Negative Number: 3743). Citadel. Gate, palace of al-Aziz Muhammad. Corpus p1.La."
Arrangement:
Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves."
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.3743
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
The monuments and inscriptions of Northern Syria were surveyed and collected between 1908 and 1914 by Moritz Sobernheim and Ernst Herzfeld as part of a broader project, sponsored by the Institut de France, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum." The glass negative is related to this survey as well as additional expeditions to Aleppo (Syria) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1930.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Citadel of Aleppo (Syria): Ayyubid Palace of Sultan Zahir al-Ghazi: Detail View of the Entrance Portal with Muqarnas and Arabic Inscription No. 72, in Naskhi Mameluke Script
- Handwritten notes accompanying related print in photo file 15, vol. 1 reads, "Inscription in gate of palace of al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad."
- Publication Caption accompanying Plate L, b. reads, "Pl. L, b. Voûte du portail du palais d'al-ʿAziz Muḥammad; inscription No 72 (769)." [Herzfeld, Ernst. "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, Deuxième Partie : Syrie du Nord, Inscriptions et Monuments d'Alep. Tome II. Le Caire; Imprimerie de L'Institut Franc̦ais d'Archaéologie Orientale, 1954. Plate L, b."]
- Additional information from Finding Aid reads, "Subseries 4.15: Photo File 15 (3 vols.), "Aleppo," Subseries 4.15.1: vol. 1; Image No. 83 (Negative Number: 3685). Citadel. Inscription in No.81. Muhammad al-ashraf Sha'ban, 769 H. Corpus, p1.Lb."
Arrangement:
Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850, are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves."
Local Numbers:
FSA A.6 04.GN.3685
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
The monuments and inscriptions of Northern Syria were surveyed and collected between 1908 and 1914 by Moritz Sobernheim and Ernst Herzfeld as part of a broader project, sponsored by the Institut de France, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum." The glass negative is related to this survey as well as additional expeditions to Aleppo (Syria) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld in 1907, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1930.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
