Full-length portrait of a prince holding a fly-whisk in one hand and a sword over his shoulder.
Watercolour and gilt on paper.
18th century. Mughal.
Album of Mughal Indian portraits, titled on spine: House of Timur.
By permission of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Portrait of Prince Dara Shukuh, brother of Aurangzeb, standing facing right.
Watercolour and gilt on paper.
18th century.
Album of Mughal Indian portraits, titled on spine: House of Timur
By permission of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Full-length portrait of Sultan Azim al-Din, standing facing right.
Watercolour and gilt on paper.
18th century.
Album of Mughal Indian portraits, titled on spine: House of Timur
By permission of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Essay:
The Art of the Mughals after 1600
By Marika Sardar
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
After the death of Akbar, architect of the Mughal empire and active patron of the arts, his son Jahangir (r. 1605–27) ascended to the throne. As a prince, Jahangir had established his own atelie...
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Painting illustrating Kṛṣṇa 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 landscape. All m...
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Yudishthira wrestling with Karna. Page from an illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama. Originally in manuscript dated 1007H (1598). Both men, stripped to the waist and standing, embrace one another in this traditional form of wrestling. Two chariots stand on either side while attendents await in ...
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Painting; detached album leaf. 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....
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Essay:
The Mughal Book of War: A Persian Translation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata
By Audrey Truschke
In 1582 the Mughal emperor Akbar underwrote a Persian translation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, thus transforming the great Indian epic into a Mughal courtly text. The court poured many resources i...
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Essay:
Understanding the Mughals and their influence on India…
By Digvijay Singh Kushwaha
The grandeur that India experienced under the Mughals is unparalleled and incomparable to any other Islamic dynasty that has ever ruled any part of the globe from the Gibraltar to Brunei..
Raja Jai Singh’s Observatory, Delhi (left), Safdarjang Tomb (right) - 1843
[From 'Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi’, an album consisting of 89 folios containing approximately 130 paintings of views of the Mughal and pre-Mughal monuments of Delhi, as well as other contemporary material, with an ...
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The zenana of MUHAMMAD SHAH on a visit to the country. The emperor's mother is riding on a white bullock, the ladies are indulging in various forms of recreation. River and imperial boat in the foreground. Executed in gouache.
Place of Origin: Faizabad, India
Date: ca. 1774
Watercolour
The dwelling places of the gods, the planets and signs of the zodiac, compiled for Jai Singh, taken from various Sanskrit texts.
Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca. 1774. Page number 51 (Gentil numbered two successive pages '22'). The dwelling places of the gods, the planets a...
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Architectural Elevation of the Inner Gate of the Temple of the Sun on the Coast of Orissa.
Elevation of the East Gateway of the Black Pagoda, Konarak. Two figures with offerings stand in the doorway. At the top, the seated figure of the Sun God, Surya, and below, nine celestial deities.
Puri,...
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Painted in Patna - 19th century (early)
Company School
Watercolour painting on paper of the moon god Chandra. Chandra is shown pale skinned, riding on a chariot pulled by an antelope and driven by a red skinned driver. The driver wears a golden crown and clothing and holds a...
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One of fourteen paintings of castes and occupations. This one of a money-lender (?) and his wife; the man in pink, the woman in a blue-patterned gold sari, both holding 'pan'.
Thanjavur - 1800