Calligraphic sheet with a depiction of turbaned head

Middle Eastern Collection

Accession Nr.: 8000
Type: painting
Date of production:
18th century
Materials/Techniques: paper, drawing, gilded
Dimensions: 39.7 × 28.6 cm
Guilt drawing on paper; pasted in a gold frame and depicted in profile, the portrait, if rotated in 180 degrees, turns to another portrait. On the other side of the sheet, a page of mirror-written calligraphy, showing an obliterated signature.