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THE MUGHAL DYNASTY: A LARGE ILLUSTRATION OF TWENTY-FOUR MUGHAL EMPERORS AND PRINCES

DELHI SCHOOL, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1850

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THE MUGHAL DYNASTY: A LARGE ILLUSTRATION OF TWENTY-FOUR MUGHAL EMPERORS AND PRINCES
DELHI SCHOOL, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1850
Opaque pigments on paper, depicting 24 Mughal emperors from Timur to Fath al-Mulk Muhammad Mirza Afkhar Bu Sa'id Bahadur, each in an oval medallion and identified above in a cartouche with a black nasta'liq inscription, within gold and polychrome floral borders, mounted, framed, the reverse inscribed in English "(24) Twenty-four Moghal Kings of Delhi", a nasta'liq inscription along the bottom edge
23 3/8 x 16in. (59.4 x 40.6cm.)

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The inscription in Urdu along the bottom edge reads shabih khandan mughuliya bi-takht dehli ("Likeness of the Mughal rulers on the throne of Delhi"). An old printed note on the reverse transcribes the identification inscriptions into English.

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