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Portrait of a Mughal Nobleman
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In the center of the page is a drawing of a standing nobleman in profile. He wears a turban, a jama (robe), a scarf, and a waist sash (patka) with a punch dagger (katar) tucked into it. Tucked under his left arm is a rectangular packet that is highlighted in gold. The figure’s hands are clasped through the bars of his punch dagger.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop Class of 1886
Title: Portrait of a Mughal Nobleman
Description:
In the center of the page is a drawing of a standing nobleman in profile.
He wears a turban, a jama (robe), a scarf, and a waist sash (patka) with a punch dagger (katar) tucked into it.
Tucked under his left arm is a rectangular packet that is highlighted in gold.
The figure’s hands are clasped through the bars of his punch dagger.
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