Viper in a Rocky Garden from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'

Provenance

Probably George Joseph Demotte, Paris and New York [this and the following according to receipt 2069, copy in curatorial file]. Chauncey J. Blair (died 1916), Chicago. P. Jackson Higgs Gallery, New York; sold to Kate S. Buckingham, Chicago, by 1919 [according to statement by Jack V. Sewell, Curator of Oreitnal Art at the Art Institute, July 1960, see curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.

Viper in a Rocky Garden from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'

c. 1300

Accession Number

14545

Medium

Opaque watercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions

24.3 × 18.9 cm (9 9/16 × 7 7/16 in.)

Classification

manuscript

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection