Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c5.3

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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