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Materials:

nim qalam on paper

Size Notes:

drawing; leaf 23.3 x 14.9 cm

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed with a Persian couplet in nasta’liq script in a very fine hand on border above; and below: 'in raqm az Mukund naqqash ast' ['This drawing is by Mukund Naqqash' (the painter)], with an evaluation of '2' between the ascetic's horn and the ram

Exhibited:

Paintings from the Muslim Courts of India, British Museum, London, 1976. In the Image of Man, Hayward Gallery, London, 1982

Literature:

London 1976, pp.59-60, no.79. London 1982-I, pp.170-1, no.267. Verma 1994, p.307, no.52. Leach 1995, vol.I, p.301 footnote 2, vol.II, p.1114, footnote 1 under Mukund. Seyller 2000, p.200. Seyller 2002, p.75, under no.16 and footnote 4.

Provenance:

Prince Salim (1569-1627; ruled as Emperor Jahangir 1605-27). Georges Joseph Demotte, Paris and New York (1877-1923). Demotte Inc., New York. Mrs. Charles E. Slatkin, New York (1908-2000). Acquired in 1973