Maharaja Abhai Singh of Marwar and the Chāran Poet Prithvi Raj Sandu 1...
Miniature. ‘Maharaja Abhai Singh of Marwar Gives a Pearl Necklace to the Chāran Poet Prithvi Raj Sandu.’ Signed Dalchand India, Jodhpur; 1727 Leaf: 31.5 × 22.7 cm Under Maharaja Abhai Singh (1724-1749) the gra... More
“Sultan Ali Adil Shah II of Bijapur with a Woman” 1660-75 David coll
“Sultan Ali Adil Shah II of Bijapur with a Woman” 1660-75 David collection, Copenhagen
Miniature from Nusrati’s Gulshan-i Ishq. ‘Sultan Ali Adil Shah II of B...
This posthumous portrait of Sultan Ali Adil Shah II (1656-1672) was the frontispiece for a well-known copy of Gulshan-i Ishq (The Rose Garden of Love), a mathnavi poem written in Urdu by Ali Adil Shah’s court ... More
Miniature pasted on an album leaf. ‘The Great Mughal Farrukh-siyar Bes...
The last important Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb, died in 1707. An effort was made to maintain the old magnificence of the court in Delhi, but the realm was steadily weakened. It is a twist of fate that Farrukh-si... More
Miniature opklæbet på et albumblad. ‘Portræt af den tronende Nadir Sha...
Nadir Shah Afshar var en turkmensk leder, som gik i safavidisk tjeneste, da dynastiet kun var en skygge af sig selv. Landet var plaget af angreb udefra, og det var Nadir Shahs fortjeneste, at Iran oplevede en ... More
Miniature. “Portrait of a Rohilla Afghan”, Northern India; 1821-1822
Miniature. “Portrait of a Rohilla Afghan” Northern India; 1821-1822 Leaf: 27.3 × 16.3 cm The foppish young man is wearing colorful garments that reflect his ethnic background. An inscription on the back identi... More
Miniature. “Portrait of a Rohilla Afghan”, Northern India; 1821-1822
Miniature. “Portrait of a Rohilla Afghan” Northern India; 1821-1822 Leaf: 27.3 × 16.3 cm The foppish young man is wearing colorful garments that reflect his ethnic background. An inscription on the back identi... More
Miniature. ‘The Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah on his throne’ India, Mugh...
The last of the significant great Mughals, Aurangzeb, died in 1707. After a brief struggle among his relatives (see also 4/1980 and 13/2015), his second-oldest son, Muhammad Muazzam, assumed power under the na... More
Prince Azam Shah on Horseback, David Collection
The portrait is of the Great Mughal Aurangzeb’s third son, Azam Shah. The style is the somber one known from innumerable portraits of Aurangzeb himself on horseback, probably an expression of both the fact tha... More
Palace complex with harem gardens, India
Palace complex with harem gardens" India; Faizabad or Lucknow. The miniature, whose primary motif is a fantastic palace complex populated by a prince’s concubines along with their female servants and guards, i... More
Two miniatures. ‘Kala with Saber Drawn’ and ‘Kala in Uniform’
Two miniatures. ‘Kala with Saber Drawn’ and ‘Kala in Uniform’. From the family workshop of Ghulam Ali Khan, commissioned by William Fraser. Pages taken from an album. Watercolour on paper. 37.9 × 24.9 and 39.7... More
Faizabad harem
A Palace Complex with Harem Gardens” India, Faizabad or Lucknow, c. 1765