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Image details : Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from the St. Petersburg Album 1615-1618 Bichitr Mughal dynasty Reign of Emperor Jahangir Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper H: 48.0 W: 33.0 cm India Source : Smithsonian Museum

One of the best EXAMPLES OF MUGHAL MINIATURES,Period*technically yes, But the Mughal's had as court artists 5000 of them who churned out the wishes of the emperor, an old tradition kept by the Turks, and passed to the Persian and later Subcontinent RULERS of the time, THUS EVOLVED a style of its own master craftsman did the faces the rest of the technical details were left to hundreds of best crafts man, the preparation of Paper alone took several months, drawings a few days and finally painstakingly elaborate methods were used to Polish the paint in such a way that the MINIATURE texture and thickness of the paint was almost become half,a great science of its time, THE KING KEPT a Diary,I am Lucky to see real miniature artists at work both in India and Pakistan.as well as hundreds of Original miniatures in Museums of Pakistan and India,I DID HAVE A GREAT teacher, i only did borders for him USTAD JAMIL NAQSH OF Pakistan,Haji Shareef Saheb, Ustad Allah Buksh,Mr Ozir Zuby,all Masters of the last Century,

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