Mansoureh Fadavi - Secretary of Technical and Vocational in Ramsar (Ministry of Education)

Lithography entered Iran in Qajer era. As a result the art of book illustration commenced. India which had become familiar with this craft and industry before Iran and had lots of cultural and literary commonalities with Iran published the first lithographic Shahnamah by the order of an Iranian publisher. By entering this books into Iran some illustrators used it, to create their own works. One of these artists is Mirza Aliqoli Khoee, the greatest Iranian illustrators. He illustrated the first lithography Shahnamah in Iran, from 1849 to 1851. It has been affected by the first lithography Shahnamah of India in 1846. The composition of the pictures, the place of the elements and the figures and illustration of the common events are the effects of its Indian counterpart.The pictures of Iranian Shahnamahk have recently been published and studied. However, no comparative study has been taken on them. This is a descriptive-analytical study. The data and the pictures have been collected through library study

Shahnamah, book illustration, India, Mirza Aligholi Khoee