Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c5: Chapter I
Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c5
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Chapter I
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PLATE | FACING PAGE --- | --- I. Book illustration in the Mongolian style from *A History of the Mongols*; Rampur State Library; fourteenth (?) century; size 12" × 16½" . . . . . . 39 II. Book illustration by Bihzad; *cir.* A.D. 1500; British Museum, Or. 6810, fol. 368 . . . . . 40 III. Fig. 1. Illustration from the story of *Yusuf and Zulaikha*; Persian, Safavid style; *cir.* A.D. 1545; collection of Mr. J. C. French, I.C.S.; size 8" × 4½" . . . 43 Fig. 2. Portrait of a young man; Safavid style, Bukhara School; probably painted by Aqa Riza; *cir.* A.D. 1580; Indian Museum, Calcutta, No. 293; size 5½" × 3¼" . . 43
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CHAPTER II
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IV. Fig. 1. Portrait of the Amir Timur; painted *cir.* A.D. 1575; collection of Mr. J. C. French, I.C.S. . . . . 49 Fig. 2. Portrait of the Emperor Babur; from a painting on cotton entitled ‘Princes of the House of Timur’; painted *cir.* A.D. 1570; British Museum. (See Plates XII and LX) . . . . . . . 49 V. The Emperor Babur dictating his *Memoirs* to a scribe; painted *cir.* A.D. 1600; Rampur State Library . . . 50 VI. Illustration from the story of *Laila and Majnun*; painted by Mir Sayyid Ali, in the Safavid style; from a copy of *Nizami’s Khamsah*; dated A.D. 1539-42; British Museum, Or. 2265, fol. 157; size 11" × 7½" . . . . 53
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¹ All measurements are in inches.
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XVIII. Portraits of Daulat the painter, and Abd ur-Rahim the writer, of Mr. Dyson Perrins’s copy of the *Khamsah*; painted *cir.* A.D. 1605; size 5½" × 8" . . . *face pl.* XIX
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XIX. Incident on a journey from Kabul, A.D. 1607; the Emperor Jahangir witnessing a fight between a snake and a spider; Rampur State Library . . . *after pl.* XVIII
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XX. The Emperor Jahangir at the Shrine of Khwaja Mu‘in ud-din Chishti, Ajmere, A.D. 1613; Rampur State Library . . . 83
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XXI. Sketch portrait of the Emperor Jahangir, late in life; drawn *cir.* A.D. 1625; collection of M. Cartier, Paris . . . 84
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XXII. Fig. 1. Sketches of goats, painted A.D. 1619 (see Jahangir’s *Memoirs*, vol. ii, pp. 88, 89); collection of M. Demotte, Paris . . . 85
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Fig. 2. Painting of a jonquil, from Dara Shikoh’s album, India Office Library, London; R. and L. 944–1908, fol. 66; executed *cir.* A.D. 1630 . . . 85
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XXIII. Peafowl, probably painted by Mansur, *cir.* A.D. 1625; from the collection of Baron Maurice Rothschild, Paris . . . 86