Victoria & Albert architectural scroll, London, England
A collection of architectural design scrolls were bought by C. Purdon Clarke from Tehran in 1876 for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, after the death of the state architect Mirza Akbar. Two of the scrolls are preserved in their original state, and those more fragile where cut and pasted on 53 large cardboards in random order. Although not as old as the Topkapi scroll, these scrolls show a continuation of the tradition of drafting architectural design scrolls that survived, especially in Iran, to the modern era.
علي
Ali
(Quadrupled.)
Interpretation pending.
Interpretation pending.
محمد
Muhammad
(Quadrupled.)
علي
Ali
(Quadrupled.)
علي
Ali
(Quadrupled.)
Example of the wallpaper pattern.
