D-770: Persia: Animal Figures from Coins

Persia: Animal Figures from Coins [drawing]

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Local Numbers: D-770 FSA A.06 05.0770

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Names: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948
Collection Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

Place: Asia; Iran

Topic: Ancient Near Eastern Art; Archaeology; Antiquities; Architectural drawing; Numismatics; Coins; Animals in art

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 5: Drawings and Maps / D-770: Twelve figures from coins: Figs.8 and 12. IAE, fig.389; Figs.1, 9, 11. IAE, fig.390; Figs. 7 and 10. IAE, fig.394. D-770a is tracing of seven figures. See also D-796 for tracing of some figures

Extent: 1 Drawings (visual works) (50.3 cm. x 34.2 cm.)

Date: 1905-1934

Container: Item D-770

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.06 05.0770

Type: Archival materials; Drawings (visual works); Drawings

Collection Citation: Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946.

Arrangement: Drawings are arranged roughly in sequential number sequences, housed in document boxes or in flat file folders by size, and stored in the map case drawers.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Bibliography: Herzfeld, Ernst. "Iran in the Ancient East. Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. London: Oxford University Press, 1941. Fig.394."