Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Smith, Myron Bement, 1897-1970
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- Myron Bement Smith Collection
- Myron Bement Smith Collection / Series 2: The Islamic Archives
- Date
- 1933-1937
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.04, Subseries 2.4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- The Myron Bement Smith Collection, FSA A.04. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Scope and Contents note
- Myron Bement Smith (MBS) made many sketches and drawings and some detailed plans of Islamic monuments in Iran during his field research there from 1933 to 1937. The Masjid-i Jomeh in Isfahan became the focus of his interest but he did sketches and detailed drawings of many other monuments in Isfahan and elsewhere. He also recorded inscriptions and acquired some pounced tracings of inscriptions. The amount of information recorded on individual items varies greatly; some include detailed notes, with measurements and individual architectural features, while others have nothing.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512430630-1503512430846-1
