Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c11.94

c11.94

Jahangir was extremely pleased with the picture, but offered to bet with the ambassador that his court painters would make a copy which Roe could not distinguish from the original. After some diplomatic fencing, Roe, who had formed a very poor opinion of Indian artists from the pictures he had seen, agreed to “lay a good horse” with the Minister, Asaph Khan; but the latter, he added in his diary, “recanted in Priuat.”