Folio from the Ramayana of Valmiki (The Freer Ramayana), Vol. 1, folio 131; recto: Ravana seizes Sita by the hair to abduct her to Lanka; verso: text
1597-1605
Painted by Shyam Sundar
Mughal dynasty
Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
H: 26.4 W: 14.3 cm
Northern India
Man's robe (jama), 17th century
India, Deccan, Burhanpur or Hyderabad
Cotton; painted, with applied gold leaf
The early Mughal rulers Akbar and Jahangir were interested in fashion stuffs, carpets, and ornamental textiles. Both emperors had a penchant for inventing new names for garments and ...
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An opaque watercolour painting on paper depicting The Emperior Shah Jahan and three of his sons and courtiers, approaching an idgah for Muslim festival, possibly at Ajmer.
Digital Rare Book:
The Divan-i-Hafiz
By Hafiz
Translated from Persian to English by Henry Wilberforce Clarke
Published by Government of India Central Printing Office, Calcutta- 1891
One of six drawings of figures from the Mughal emperor's ceremonial procession on the occasion of Id. A covered sedan chair being carried by eight or nine men, wearing white with various coloured sashes and turbans. Three accompanying figures, one with a parasol.
Eastern gate of the Jummah Musjid at Delhi, by Thomas Daniell, print, aquatint, 1795, London.
This depicts one of the entrances to the Jami Masjid, with steps leading up to an imposing gateway. There is a procession with elephants in the foreground.
This is one of a set of twenty-four print...
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Plate 1 from the first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.' The Jami Masjid of Delhi, the largest mosque in India, was built between 1644 and 1658, as the principal religious monument of the new capital of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, e...
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Duryodhana and his brothers
Razmnama painting
ca.1598
Opaque water colour and gold on paper
This painting has been detached from an illustrated volume of the Razmnama, or Book of War, the Persian translation of the Mahabharata. This Sanskrit text was translated by order of the emperor Akbar so t...
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This archaic battle scene, taken from the epic Razmnameh, depicts Arjuna and Bhishma in their war chariots attacking one another from opposing sides. Charioted horses await below, while a group of horsemen, sounding a trumpet and drum, stand in the top right corner.
Painting from the Akbarnama, the battle preceding the capture of the fort at Bundu, gouache on paper, Mughal, India, 1590-1595.
This painting by the Mughal court artist Tulsi Kalan depicts the battle preceding the capture of Bundi fort in north-western India by the Mughal army in 1577. It is a...
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Album leaf; painting depicting a Mulla kneeling with an open book rested against his knee expounding in the court of a mosque, surrounded by three engaged students. Another man lays (in a prostrating position) on cushions directly behind, while another man addresses a wounded foot in the foregrou...
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Depiction of a scene in a school. An instructor is shown seated beneath a canopy writing on a scoll surrounded by his pupils. Outside the walls a group of men stand next to their horses listening to another man seated upon a box.
Detached album folio containing a single-page coloured drawing. ...
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A shaykh and companions listen to music at night. (c.1645)
La'lchand (artist, attributed)
Watercolour and gilt on paper
An album of 41 Indian paintings, chiefly from the Shahjahan period (1628-1658), expressive of the Mughal lineage of Shahjahan; with 37 calligraphic specimens by M?r Al?-a...
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Plate 12 from the fourth set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery,' which they called 'Twenty-four Landscapes.' The views progress northwards from the far south at Cape Comorin to Srinagar in Garhwal in the Himalaya mountains. Kannauj was an impor...
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