[Woman smoking opium in a hookah, fol. 7b]

[Woman smoking opium in a hookah, fol. 7b]

Collection:
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Author(s):
Shaykh Muhammad, 18th cent.?, illustrator
Contributor(s):
Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, -1350
Publication:
[17--?]
Language(s):
Persian
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Opium
Aphrodisiacs
Smoking
Persia
Genre(s):
Pictorial Work
Abstract:
A woman leaning against a tree smokes opium in a hookah. Three women stand behind her on one side; other the other side a young woman stands before the woman smoking and offers to her three cone-shaped plants (opium?). In the background an open-air edifice with a dome-roof rises from behind a wall.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Related Title(s):
Is part of: Ladhdhat al-nisā'.; (DNLM)746271
Extent:
1 leaf : 22 x 15 cm.
Technique:
hand-colored
NLM Unique ID:
101435905 (See catalog record)
NLM Image ID:
A016206
OCLC no.:
214299320
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101435905