Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c9.5

c9.5

LXIX. Elementary exercises of the Mughal painters ; part i . . 182 LXX. Exercises of the Mughal painters ; part ii . . . . 183 LXXI. Fig. 1. Tracing on deer skin of a portrait of the Amir Timur showing marks of the ‘colour guides’ . . . . 184 Fig. 2. Sketch portrait showing the black outline correcting the preliminary red outline . . . . . . 184 LXXII. Example of a *qita‘* or elegant writing and illuminating ; the writing by Mir Ali of Herat who died in A.D. 1558-9 ; Indian Museum, Calcutta ; size 15" × 8½" . . . 191