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Manuscripts and miniatures from Persia and India.

  • "Bahram Gur Hunting with Azada", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956. Accession number 57.51.32. Open Access, CC0 1.0.
  • "Solanki Raga", Folio from a Ragamala
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1972. Accession number 1972.285.1. Open Access, CC0 1.0.
  • Prince and Ladies in a Garden
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2001. Accession number 2001.302. Open Access, CC0 1.0.
  • A Gathering of Holy Men of Different Faiths
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2009. Accession number 2009.318. Open Access, CC0 1.0.
  • Durbar of Emperor Akbar Shah II
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022. Accession number 2022.196. Open Access, CC0 1.0.

Small paintings made for books and albums: a folio from the Shahnama, a Ragamala page and the intimate courtly scenes of 18th-century India.

A conceptual collection written for the Galerio demo, not a real-world exhibition. Works are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access collection.

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