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THE DRAWING MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1585; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED JUGAL KISHOR, MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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THE DRAWING MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1585; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED JUGAL KISHOR, MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Ink and wash heightened with gold on paper, laid down between gold foliate border and black, orange and white rules on gold-flecked buff margins with outer green reinforcement paper, reverse with 4ll. black nasta'liq set diagonally in clouds reserved against a gold ground with flowering vine decoration laid down between blue border with gold meandering vine and gold, black and blue rules, gold-flecked buff margins with old inventory numbers, mounted
Painting 5 1⁄8 x 3 5⁄8 in. (12.9 x 9.2cm.); calligraphy 9 7⁄8 x 5 ½in. (25.1 x 14.1cm.); folio 15 ¼ x 10 ¾in. (38.7 x 27.3cm.)
THE DRAWING MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1585; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED JUGAL KISHOR, MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Ink and wash heightened with gold on paper, laid down between gold foliate border and black, orange and white rules on gold-flecked buff margins with outer green reinforcement paper, reverse with 4ll. black nasta'liq set diagonally in clouds reserved against a gold ground with flowering vine decoration laid down between blue border with gold meandering vine and gold, black and blue rules, gold-flecked buff margins with old inventory numbers, mounted
Painting 5 1⁄8 x 3 5⁄8 in. (12.9 x 9.2cm.); calligraphy 9 7⁄8 x 5 ½in. (25.1 x 14.1cm.); folio 15 ¼ x 10 ¾in. (38.7 x 27.3cm.)
Literature
B. Goswamy and E. Fischer, Wonders of a Golden Age, Zurich, 1987, no.81, pp.166-7
S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London, 1998, no.79, pp.109-10
S. Canby, Princes, Poètes et Paladins, Geneva, 1999, no.79, pp.109-10
S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London, 1998, no.79, pp.109-10
S. Canby, Princes, Poètes et Paladins, Geneva, 1999, no.79, pp.109-10
Exhibited
Wonders of a Golden Age, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1987
Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum, London; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1998-9
Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum, London; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1998-9
Engraved
On the reverse, 'He [God] is the Almighty, the Infallible Guide You have no friend, and no place to turn to except the dust of (His) door The portico of your eyes, and the dwelling of your heart possess no trace of a ray of their own but for (His) light written by Jugal Kishor'
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