Painting illustrating the death of K???a and the Pandavas visiting the dying Bhishma from the epic Razmnameh. Originally from manuscript Bhishma lies in the centre of the scene surrounded immediately by kneeling attendants, while warriors and horsemen stand in the near distance amidst a rocky lan...
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Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper,illustration to the Razm-nama (a Persian translation of the Mahabharata), the last hours of Bhisma. He lies on a bed of arrows discoursing to Yudhisthira.
Mughal
1598 ca.
Artist: 'Ali, Husain
Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Digital Rare Book:
A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Baber and Humayun
By William Erskine
Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London - 1854
Volume 1
Digital Rare Book:
A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Baber and Humayun
By William Erskine
Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London - 1854
Volume 2
New Book:
Maps of Mughal India
By Susan Gole
Based on illustrations by Jean Baptiste Joseph Gentil
Published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors - 2003
Gentil lived for twenty-five years in India, spending eleven of them at the court of Shuja-ud-daula. He carried from India among other thing...
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Mother Mary and Child Christ
Mid 18th century, late Mughal, Muhammad Shah period
A masterpiece on a widely different theme foreign to Indian painters, the miniature represents mother Mary with child Jesus in her lap and a number of persons around. They include a bearded tall male in long saffron...
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Painting by Manohar (active ca. 1582?1624)
early 17th century
Mughal
During Akbar?s reign, numerous Christian subjects were copied by Indian artists working from the illustrated Bibles, prints, and paintings that were brought to the Mughal court by Jesui...
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"Dervish With a Lion", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Painting by Padarath
Calligrapher: Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi (active late 15th?early 16th century)
Persian Inscription (in lower border, in Shah Jahan?s hand): "Work of Padarath".
During the reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan, devotees were fa...
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"Jahangir and His Vizier, I'timad al-Daula", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Artist: Manohar (active ca. 1582?1624)
Calligrapher: Mir 'Ali Haravi (d. ca. 1550)
While Jahangir (r. 1605?27) and l'timad al-Daula (a title meaning "reliance of the state") greet each other formally in this painting, t...
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Digital Book:
The Jahangirnama - Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India
Translated and edited by Wheeler Macintosh Thackston,
Published by Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, New York - 1999
Digital Rare Book:
Tuzak-i Jahangiri - T?r?kh-i sal?anat-i N?r al-D?n Jah?ng?r B?dsh?h
By Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan (1569-1627)
And Mu?ammad Shar?f Mu?tamad Kh?n (1639 or 1640) and M?rza Mu?ammad H?d?
Published by Ma?ba?-i Naval Kish?r, Lucknow - 1914
In Persian
Inkpot of the Emperor Jahangir
dated A.H. 1028/A.D. 1618?19
Sturdy, monumental, artfully rounded, richly adorned, and so weighty and well balanced that it could hardly be overturned, this dignified and useful inkpot can be seen as a poetic visual symbol of the empire inherited by Jahangir. If hi...
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Deposition from cross with rejoicing angels, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal, ca. 1590-1600.
This painting was probably done for the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r.1605?1627) when he was still a prince living in the 1590s at Lahore, the northern capital of the Mughal empire, now in nort...
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