“There’s no break in the line; there’s no hesitation in the hand of the artist.”
Curator Sheila Canby on a Persian drawing of a horseman and groom from the mid-1500s.
Line
Sheila Canby
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Contributors
Sheila Canby
Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge, Department of Islamic Art
Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge, Department of Islamic Art
Photography by Eileen Travell
Art Mentioned
1540–50
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