D-144: Damascus. Madrasa Igna'iyya, elevation. Marked "unpublished"

Damascus (Syria): Madrasa Igna'iyya: Section of the Building [drawing]

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sova.fsa.a.06_ref8829

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Local Numbers: D-144 FSA A.6 05.0144
General: - Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld original drawings'caption and Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: The monuments and inscriptions of Northern Syria were surveyed and collected between 1908 and 1914 by Moritz Sobernheim and Ernst Herzfeld as part of a broader project, sponsored by the Institut de France, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum." The drawing may be related to this survey as well as to additional expeditions to Damascus (Syria) carried out by Ernst Herzfeld as early as 1903 and as later as 1930.

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

Place: Asia; Syria; Damascus (Syria); Syria -- Damascus -- Damascus

Topic: Art of the Islamic World; Archaeology; Architectural drawing; Architecture; Religious buildings

Creator: Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948

See more items in: Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 5: Drawings and Maps

Extent: 1 Drawings (visual works) (55 cm x 37 cm.)

Date: 1903-1930

Container: Item D-144

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

Identifier: FSA.A.06, Item FSA A.6 05.0144

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.

Genre/Form: Drawings

Scope and Contents: Original caption on verso reads, "Damas, Iqna'iyya, unpubl."; Damascus (Syria): Madrasa Igna'iyya: Section of the Building [drawing]