Gwenaëlle Fellinger, Carol Guillaume, Melanie Gibson (Editors)
Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art.
London/Paris: Gingko/Louvre ́́éditions, 2021. First edition. 9781909942646 215 pages.
Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 10" x 11.75", is, together with dust jacket, new, still in shrinkwrap.

"The symposium 'Revealing the Unseen' was organised by the Musée du Louvre and the Musée du Louvre-Lens on 21-22 June 2018, in conjunction with the exhibition L'Empire des roses. Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art parsan du XIXe Siécle."
"The articles in this volume are focused on the art of Iran in the nineteenth century while it was under Qajar rule. The articles in the first section are dedicated to the arts of painting, illumination and lithography. The second section is also concerned with works on paper but looks at newly introduced techniques such as fingernail art and photography. The third section looks at different materials: tiles decorated with mounted falconers, ikat velvet textiles, carpets as diplomatic gifts and a type of armour known as chahar ‘ayna. The two final articles focus on artefacts acquired through diplomatic and commercial exchanges."