Composite Camel with Attendant

This fine drawing of a camel and a watchful man is executed in black ink and highlighted with pink and yellow watercolor. The camel is tied from its forefeet to a cut tree trunk. I...

A peri, a winged fairy-like spirit of Persian mythology, sits on top of a composite camel made up of three female dancers. The barefoot dancers wear large-leafed skirts and gold je...

The drawing on the recto of this folio depicts a man wearing a Safavid turban who faces a camel. The man holds the camel by a ring on its bridle. Both man and beast are portrayed i...

On the right is a kneeling prince, distinguished by his earring and ornate turban. He wears yellow trousers, a long, striped robe (jama), and a waist sash (patka). Tucked and hangi...

The walls of this elegantly shaped meiping vessel descend from the short, vertical neck, curve around the bulging shoulders, gently constrict to form the narrow waist, and then fla...

This painting depicts a young Sujan Singh (r. 1700-35) of Bikanier shooting herons from a palace terrace. He aims his matchlock gun at a group of heron circling in the sky. Behind ...

Bahram Gur, a son of Yazdigird III, took his slave girl, a harpist named Azada, on a hunt. As they rode together on his camel, Azada challenged Bahram to do the seemingly impossibl...