Viper in a Rocky Garden from Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'

1. Probably George Joseph Demotte, Paris and New York [this and the following according to receipt 2069, copy in curatorial file]. Chauncey J. Blair (died 1916), Chicago. P. Jackson Higgs Gallery, New York; sold to Kate S. Buckingham, Chicago, by 1919 [according to statement by Jack V. Sewell, Curator of Oreitnal Art at the Art Institute, July 1960, see curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, May 14–August 18, 2019.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of the AIC's collection of Indian and Islamic Paintings, November 20, 2015– May 16, 2016.
• Syracuse University, The School of Art, Islamic Painting, April 6-26, 1967
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Islamic Art, November 3, 1944–February 4, 1945.

• Hill, Rebecca. “Beast Lore in the Islamic Tradition.” Book of Beasts: the Bestiary in the Medieval World: Exhibition, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, from May 14 to August 18, 2019, edited by Elizabeth Morrison and Larisa Grollemond, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019, pp. 260–265.
• “Near Eastern Art in Chicago Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, November 17, 1973–January 20, 1974”, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973, p. 40, fig. 128.
• Handbook of the Department of Oriental Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1933, fig. 76.
• C.F. Kelley, “Persian and Indian miniature painting”, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 27, no. 3 (1933), pp. 46-48.
• H.G. (Helen Gunsaulus), “Notes on Persian Art”, in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 1919, p. 99.