Culture: Islamic, PersianNote: Inscription: In the king's cup your moon-like face/ Gives to the sun of victory a new ascent. All that Iskandar desired and the world did not give him/ Is one sip of the pure wine of your life-enhancing cup
Culture: Islamic, PersianNote: Inscription: In the king's cup your moon-like face/ Gives to the sun of victory a new ascent. All that Iskandar desired and the world did not give him/ Is one sip of the pure wine of your life-enhancing cup
Fragment of a larger drawing. Published in Sotheby's catalog, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, Lot 95, April 6, 2011.Culture: Islamic, MughalMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Fragment of a larger drawing. Published in Sotheby's catalog, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, Lot 95, April 6, 2011.Culture: Islamic, MughalMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Fragment of a larger drawing. Published in Sotheby's catalog, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, Lot 95, April 6, 2011.Culture: Islamic, MughalMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Note: The attribution to Basawan has been made by Welch (1976), who points out the interest taken by this artist in eccentricities, and the characteristic treatment of the tree in the background.Culture: Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Note: The attribution to Basawan has been made by Welch (1976), who points out the interest taken by this artist in eccentricities, and the characteristic treatment of the tree in the background.Culture: Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Note: The attribution to Basawan has been made by Welch (1976), who points out the interest taken by this artist in eccentricities, and the characteristic treatment of the tree in the background.Culture: Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Note: The attribution to Basawan has been made by Welch (1976), who points out the interest taken by this artist in eccentricities, and the characteristic treatment of the tree in the background.Culture: Mughal, IslamicMaterials/Techniques: ink, paper
Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gouache (water-base paint), gold (metal), paper (fiber product)Note: General note: Detached folio from a manuscript pasted to an album page w/plain border.
Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gouache (water-base paint), gold (metal), paper (fiber product)Note: General note: Detached folio from a manuscript pasted to an album page w/plain border.
Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gouache (water-base paint), gold (metal), paper (fiber product)Note: General note: Detached folio from a manuscript pasted to an album page w/plain border.
Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: gouache (water-base paint), gold (metal), paper (fiber product)Note: General note: Detached folio from a manuscript pasted to an album page w/plain border.
One tinted drawing and detached calligraphy pages once part of an albumCulture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: ink, gold, color (pigment), paper
Earliest of copies of Baburnama commissioned by Akbar; dispersed; separated folios mounted on album leaves; the largest single group of 21 miniatures in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.Culture: Islamic
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Drawing, probably for an illustration in a manuscript of the "Khamsa" of Nizami, mounted as an album page. A couplet of unrelated text in the upper right and lower left corner.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: red chalk, black chalk, ink, color (pigment), gold, paperNote: Inscription: Your kindness is consolation to the poor; your wrath is the destruction of the mighty. Whether you are kind or wrathful, in either case there is a share of your mercy.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Detached folio mounted on an album page.Culture: IslamicMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, paperNote: General note: Previously identified as Siege of Qandahar.
Illustrated folios from a dispersed Bhagavata Purana ("Ancient Stories of the Lord")Culture: IndianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor and ink on paper
Illustrated folios from a dispersed Bhagavata Purana ("Ancient Stories of the Lord")Culture: IndianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor and ink on paper
Illustrated folios from a dispersed Bhagavata Purana ("Ancient Stories of the Lord")Culture: IndianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor and ink on paper