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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #465 on: July 19, 2018, 12:58:10 PM »

Sea Serpent Swallows Ship. Deccan. Bijapur, 1670. Aga Khan Museum.





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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #466 on: August 10, 2018, 05:08:24 AM »

Kangra painting from a Harivamsa series.

It looks like Krishna there, but I'm not sure.


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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #467 on: August 14, 2018, 01:09:53 AM »

Horse and Syce. Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karayya. Calcutta, 1842.




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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #468 on: August 15, 2018, 11:19:54 AM »
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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #469 on: October 23, 2018, 02:31:38 PM »

Plate XI from James Baillie Fraser's Views in the Himala Mountains (1820) shows the Hindu pilgrimage site of Gangotri, the source of Ganges.



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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #470 on: October 23, 2018, 02:34:42 PM »

The Night Tryst. Kota, late 18th Century. Bonham's.



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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #471 on: November 05, 2018, 05:43:32 AM »

The Elephantine Elopement. Provincial Mughal, Late 18th Century.




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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #472 on: November 05, 2018, 05:46:59 AM »

Skirmish at the Shrine. Follower of Mir Kalan Khan. Oudh, 1760.





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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #473 on: November 05, 2018, 05:54:03 AM »

Jahangir Converses with Gosāīṅ Jadrūp. Jahangirnama. 1620.





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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #474 on: November 05, 2018, 11:49:31 AM »

Akbar Mounting his Horse; from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama,1605-1607.




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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #475 on: November 05, 2018, 11:54:11 AM »

Mrigank* and the Hermit. Folio from the Persian translation of the Dvadasa Bhava; Sanskrit original apparently lost. Commissioned by Prince Salim, the future Jahangir. Allahabad, 1605



*Mrigank -- a Sanskrit name for a boy meaning moon.

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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #476 on: November 05, 2018, 12:20:19 PM »

Painting by Farrukh chela from Gulshan album

(I don't know who the main character is, but the painting was so impressive.)




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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #477 on: November 11, 2018, 03:19:25 AM »

Ghulam Murtaza Khan (?). Mirza Jahangir, eldest son of Akbar II, c1805?





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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #478 on: January 13, 2019, 05:12:14 AM »

The Hoopoe. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper. Unknown artist. Jahangir period India, Mughal, circa 1610




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Re: Indian Paintings
« Reply #479 on: January 18, 2019, 03:45:09 PM »

Melancholic Woman missing her lover & Attendant consoles her,a cat at the feet & poetry book accompanies Mughal, C 1590, Attributed to Kesava & Basawan




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