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.
Akbar in old age receiving his friend Mirza 'Aziz Koka. The incident took place in March of 1602, when the Emperor promoted the Mirza and his son, and accepted his daughter as a bride for Jahangir's son Khusrau. Holding the flywhisk, Prince Khusrau stands under the pavilion accompanying his younger brother Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan. See Pride of the Princes: Indian Art of the Mughal Era in the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1985.Reverse of painting: Persian poetry by Kamal of Khujand (d. circa 1400 A.D.), with illumination. Calligraphy by Mir 'Ali of Herat, dated 936 A.H./1529-30 A.D.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, ink, gold, paperNote: Inscription: the work of Manohar Das
Akbar in old age receiving his friend Mirza 'Aziz Koka. The incident took place in March of 1602, when the Emperor promoted the Mirza and his son, and accepted his daughter as a bride for Jahangir's son Khusrau. Holding the flywhisk, Prince Khusrau stands under the pavilion accompanying his younger brother Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan. See Pride of the Princes: Indian Art of the Mughal Era in the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1985.Reverse of painting: Persian poetry by Kamal of Khujand (d. circa 1400 A.D.), with illumination. Calligraphy by Mir 'Ali of Herat, dated 936 A.H./1529-30 A.D.Culture: Islamic, PersianMaterials/Techniques: opaque watercolor, ink, gold, paperNote: Inscription: the work of Manohar Das