A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.126

c20.s2.126

with gold. It would be next to impossible to reproduce the most splendid of these pictures in colours with success, and I think it better not to make the attempt. The composition being the weak point in these works, photographs do them an injustice. Colonel Hanna possesses two of the richest specimens in existence, Nos. 1 and 2 in his volume marked *Persian Drawings*. No. 2 is the largest Indo-Persian picture known to me, excepting the early illustrations of the *Story of Amīr Hamzah* (*ante*, p. 468), the measurements being 23 inches by 17½ inches. The subject is a review of cavalry on the bank of the Jumna by Shahjahān mounted on an elephant. The portraits of the principal chiefs and officers in the crowd have their names attached.