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Portrait of Jahangir
gouache heightened with gold on paper, a copy of a leaf from an imperial album showing the Emperor at a window holding a globe with a Christian saint below, wide floral border, framed and glazed, India, 20th century on earlier leaf - 12½ x 9in. (31.7 x 23cm.)

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This is a copy of a pendant portrait of Jahangir from circa 1620, signed by Hashim, originally from the Minto Albuma and now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

Okada,A.: Indian Miniatures of the Mughal Court, New York 1992, p.149, fig.173

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