Enrica Medugno
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Lot 89R
A printed map of the city of Tabriz Qajar Persia, dated 12 Sha'ban 1297/20th July 1880
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,120 inc. premium
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A printed map of the city of Tabriz
Qajar Persia, dated 12 Sha'ban 1297/20th July 1880
Qajar Persia, dated 12 Sha'ban 1297/20th July 1880
on paper backed with cloth, folding, large and small captions in naskhi script, the various quarters of the city outlined in orange, yellow and blue, legend at upper right, gazetteer of places at lower left
87.5 x 109 cm.; 23 x 19 cm. (folded)
87.5 x 109 cm.; 23 x 19 cm. (folded)
Footnotes
The map was ordered by the Crown Prince (Muzaffar Mirza, later Muzaffar al-Din Shah) and under the supervision of Mirza 'Abbas Khan, the colonel (sartip) in charge of the State School of Tabriz and with the teaching of Muhammad Mirza, the teacher of mathematics.
It is signed by Muhammad Reza, Geometrician (muhandis) and the deputy to the Chief aide-de-camp (ajudan) (unidentified), a son of Hasan 'Ali Khan, Colonel (sarhang) Qarajah-daghi.
For two further examples of late Qajar printed maps sold in these rooms, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 24th April 2018, lot 224 (Persia and the surrounding countries, dated AH 1287/AD 1870-71) and 225 (the city of Tabriz, dated 12 Sha'ban 1297/20th July 1880). For an earlier example, of Tehran, dated Jumada I 1275/December 1858-January 1859, see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 5th October 2010, lot 253.
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