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Portraits of Hindu Princes and Chiefs. Five portraits; four paintings and one drawing mounted on a detached album folio. Upper lefthand corner: `Abd al-Rahím Khán, khán-i khánkhánán (d. 1625); drawing. Figure sits cross-legged against bolster pillow. Framed by bands of plain paper on horizontal sides. Upper righthand corner: Dáráb Khán; painting. Figure stands in profile against blue ground wearing gold patterned tunic. Centre left: Prince Parvíz (d. 1626), son of Jahángir; painting. Upper body portrait only; figure shown against blue and goldflecked ground wearing a red turban, blue tunic and holding a book. Framed on vertical sides by orange bands with gold floral design. Lower lefthand corner: Mullá Shukrulláh (d. 1639); cameo painting. Figure shown in profile against blue ground wearing dark turban, red tunic and yellow fur-collared coat. Cameo framed in gold and set against pink and gold leaved ground. Lower righthand corner: Rája Mán Singh (d. 1614); painting. Figure shown in profile against brown ground, leaning on a staff and wearing red turban, light tunic, yellow pants. Full composite image framed by a thin pink border outlined in gold with weaving foliate design; margin decorated with outlines of flowering plants on pink ground. I17thC(Early) (C-E). Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper. 1920,0917,0.13.38.

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART538908

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 4854px × 6741px

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