Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c18.s1.29

c18.s1.29

Sir Thomas Roe, during his stay in Jahāngīr’s Court, presented the king with a picture. Jahāngīr’s chief painter, who was sent for to see it, said that he could paint like it. After some time, the Emperor showed Sir Thomas six pictures, five of which were painted by his own painter. They were so very similar that by candle-light one could not be distinguished from the other. It was only after a close and minute scrutiny that Roe could make out the picture presented by himself. The ambassador says that he did not expect that the painter could perform so well.³