Gold formal landscape with animals. Librarians' seals and inscriptions.
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Formal landscape with trees birds and flowers, and deer grazing; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1635-40. Guard page executed in gold, with inscriptions. 325 by 235 mm.
Gold formal landscape with animals. Dara Shikoh's dedicatory inscription to Nadira Banu Begum.
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Formal landscape of trees and flowers with deer, birds, lynxes, foxes and lions; clouds at top. Mughal, c.1630-40. Executed in gold, with an inscription (‘see above)’ which has been obliterated in gold; the gold has subsequently worn away, particularly over the black ink o...
A bustard stands on grassland by water, looking to the right; birds and cloudy sky above. Attributed to Artist B, Mughal, c 1635. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 185 by 113 mm. Reproduced: Smith (1911), pl.CXX. NOTE: A later version of th...
A night heron (‘Nycticorax nycticorax nicticorax,’ Linn.) stands with its feet in water, facing left; a pink lily grows on the left. Mughal, c.1635. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 165 by 102 mm. Reproduced: Brown (1925), pl.LV, fig.2.
A drake stands beside a pool, facing right. A pink water-lily (possibly ‘Nelumbo’ Sp.) is on the right and trees are on the horizon. Mughal, c.1635. Gouache with gold; panel of sky added. 163 by 101 mm, including panel at top. Reproduced: Smith (1911), pl....
Two butterflies alight on a pink-flowered plant (stylised cranesbill) growing in grassland. Attributed to Muhammad Khan, Mughal, c.1630-35. Gouache; background not entirely coloured. 165 by 92 mm.