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Master Builders in Qajar Tehran: The Mirza Akbar Drawings. Moya Carey

The Victoria and Albert Museum possesses one of the world’s greatest collections of Iranian art, most of which was acquired by purchase. An important exception is the unique archive of architectural drawings associated with Mirza Akbar, which apparently came as a gift. In 1874-76, the South Kensington-trained architect (and future museum director) Caspar Purdon Clarke was in Tehran, working with local ustads (or master-builders) on the completion of the present British Embassy on Ferdowsi Avenue. During this collaboration, two of Purdon Clarke’s Tehran colleagues gave him the drawings, in return for his teaching them new techniques required for the Embassy project. Once back in London, Purdon Clarke sold the drawings to the South Kensington Museum (re-named the V&A in 1899), where they have been preserved for almost 140 years. Newly conserved, the series consists of over 200 drawings, plans and sketches from Qajar Tehran. These wonderful designs are testimony to the lively variety of structural and decorative ideas used in Qajar architecture, and they offer important evidence of how these ideas were applied in practice.