"ART OF THE MUSLIM WORLD": DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHIC REFERENCES OF ISLAMIC TEXTILES AND WORKS OF ART
United States and Europe, assembled late 20th century

"ART OF THE MUSLIM WORLD": AN ALBUM CONTAINING A LARGE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC SLIDES, LARGE AND SMALL-SCALE TRANSPARENCIES, AND PRINTED PHOTOGRAPHS OF IMPORTANT ISLAMIC TEXTILES AND WORKS OF ART
United States and Europe, assembled late 20th century

Comprising over 400 photographic slides, 70 large format transparencies, prints, and many other documentary references to major private and public collections of Islamic textiles and works of art including the complete selection of Persian textiles at the Textile Museum in Washington (305 images); the textiles in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (16 images); Islamic manuscripts in the Vatican Library (105 images); five paintings exhibited at Berkeley Castle; the artworks exhibited at the Royal Persian Paintings exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, 1998 - 1999, and further important Islamic works of art (predominantly textiles) from major art dealers (117 images), the slides stamped with collection details and references, the photographs inscribed at the verso, all stored in protective plastic punched pocket wallets in a black folder, the lever arch folder spine with printed sheet listing the album contents, the smallest slides 5cm x 5cm, the largest 25cm x 20cm, the folder 31.5cm x 29cm.

Provenance: in a private London bibliophile's collection since the 1980s.

This comprehensive collection of visual references for Islamic art, textiles in particular, is an academic catalogue for a research scholar of the past century, and it was possibly used in university or museum lectures, and in publication reference.

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Dimensions: the smallest slides 5cm x 5cm, the largest 25cm x 20cm