Art Institute of Chicago
The Bowman, frontispiece from The Epic of Kings, Stories Retold from Firdusi
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (English, born the Netherlands, 1836-1912)
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- Etching in black on cream wove paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This etching is one of two prints that Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema made to illustrate Helen Zimmern’s 19th-century translation of the great Persian epic poem Shahnameh (The King’s Book) by Firdusi from around A.D. 1000. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh recounts the mythical and historical past of greater Iran, beginning with the creation of the world and the introduction of arts and civilization. It concludes with the Arab conquest of Persia.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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