Gyokusen narau gacho (Gyokusen's album of painting exercises) Vol. 1

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Mughal emperors Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan with their ministers, by Bichitr (recto), foliate design in gold (verso), folio from the Minto Album. This allegorical group portra...

Youth by a flowering tree, by Farrukh Beg (recto), Persian and Chaghatay Turkish calligraphy by Mir `Ali (verso), folio from the Minto Album. A young man stands by flowering tree...

Portrait of Shāhnavāz Khān Ṣafavī (d. 1659) by Hāshim (recto), Persian calligraphy by Mīr `Alī (verso), folio from the Minto Album. Many of the Mughal emperors ordered full-leng...

Persian calligraphy (recto), equestrian portrait of Akbar (verso), folio from the Late Shah Jahan Album. This portrait of the Mughal emperor Akbar was commissioned during the rei...

Persian and Chaghatay Turkish calligraphy by Mir `Ali (recto), youth with swans and rabbits, by `Abd al-Karim (verso), folio from the Minto Album. A young man stands in a complex...