[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924) › c5 # 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 - **Language:** English ### Chapter I ### [c5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.1) 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 ### [c5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.2) CHAPTER II ### [c5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.3) 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 ### [c5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.4) ¹ All measurements are in inches. ### [c5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.5) 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 ### [c5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.6) 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 ### [c5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.7) XX. The Emperor Jahangir at the Shrine of Khwaja Mu‘in ud-din Chishti, Ajmere, A.D. 1613; Rampur State Library . . . 83 ### [c5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.8) XXI. Sketch portrait of the Emperor Jahangir, late in life; drawn \*cir.\* A.D. 1625; collection of M. Cartier, Paris . . . 84 ### [c5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.9) 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 ### [c5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.10) 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 ### [c5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5.11) XXIII. Peafowl, probably painted by Mansur, \*cir.\* A.D. 1625; from the collection of Baron Maurice Rothschild, Paris . . . 86 --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.brown-1924.c5) · Pramāṇa