The Bagpipe Player (drawing, recto; calligraphy, verso)

Calligraphy attributed to Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri Drawing by circle of Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi)

1595–1605

Medium: Black ink and watercolor on off-white paper
Dimensions: 35.5 x 23 cm (14 x 9 1/16 in.)
Genre: Album
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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This drawing depicts a middle-aged man sitting on a rock and playing a bagpipe; clouds, tinted in blue, appear at the upper left corner. The man is hunched over his musical instrument, holding it close to his body. He gazes into the distance, his eyebrows tense with concentration as he blows air into the bagpipe.