painting
- Museum number
- 1954,0508,0.1
- Description
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Fragmentary painting (suffered considerable damage) depicting a love scene from the Anwar-i Suhaili manuscript. Illustration shows a young man receiving a cloak from a girl outside a palace complex. Eleven lines of text appear to 'float' within the top/centre, with two below. Gouache and ink on paper.
- Production date
- 1585 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 26.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 36.30 centimetres (sheet)
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Width: 19.20 centimetres (image)
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Width: 28.80 centimetres (sheet)
- Curator's comments
- Although this folio has suffered considerable damage, enough of the painted surface remains to show how in the 1580s and 1590s Akbar's artists composed scenes around large, floating blocks of text. The manuscript from which this page comes is in the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, India.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1976 13 Apr-11 Jul, BM, 'Paintings from the Muslim Courts of India'
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1954,0508,0.1