A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.123
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.123
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Portraiture continued to be practised with great success, although the delicacy of execution rarely attains the perfection of the first half of the seventeenth century. The example first cited is one which well deserves the honour of precedence, a dainty little vignette likeness of Aurangzēb himself in his old age reading a book (Pl. CXXX).