Seated Falconer

Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...

Sketchbook with blue- and black-fabric-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.6 x 21.6 cm. Each sheet numbered on verso at l.l. Drawin...

Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of white wove paper, each 34.7 x 27.1 cm. Pages numbered at l.l. of verso in graphite. Drawings i...

Sketchbook with beige-fabric-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of off-white wove paper, 37 x 31.2 cm. Pages numbered in graphite at l.l. of verso. Drawings mostl...

At the bottom of the page is a falconer mounted on a caparisoned horse. He wears a turban, an earring, a long robe (jama), a waist sash (patka), and a falconer’s glove on his right...

Khan 'Alam was the Mughal Emperor Jahangir's (r. 1605-1627) ambassador to Iran as well as his chief falconer. Here, he stands outdoors with a sparrow hawk perched on his gloved rig...

The recto and verso sides of this folio feature lines of prose written in in the Prakrit language in Devanagari script and black ink. The blank square at the center of the page con...