A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.27

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passed from the hands of Akbar to those of Jahāngīr; the third falls in the reign of Shahjahān. Six of the paintings (folios 17 *b*, 18, 19 *b*, 33 *b*, 35 *b*, and 45 *b*) seem to include portraits of Jahāngīr (Prince Salīm) in his youth and early manhood. The collection, as a whole, therefore, may be ascribed to the time of Jahāngīr and the earlier part of Shahjahān's reign, or in other words, to the first forty years of the seventeenth century.