Amazon Audible Gift Memberships


Try Amazon Fresh



Portrait of an emperor mounted on a white horse and carrying a lance. c.17thC

From the 18th Century "House of Timur" Album.



Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Manuscript Ouseley Add. 173, folio 27v. [Source & descriptions links now dead]
Description: Portrait of an emperor mounted on a white horse and carrying a lance. [caption title] No. 27. Muhammed Shah [caption from ms. introduction].

Note the red coloured (henna) legs of the horse, see also the Persian use of this in the Battle of Chaldiran fresco at the Chehel Sotoun., a battle scene from the Tarikh-i jahanara., Maijnun and an Old Woman Approach the Tent of Laila & page 034 of Dr. Kaempfer's Album of Persian Costumes and Animals
Previous: Paintings from the Patna's Drawings album      Next: Sadullah Khan giving audience



Back to Indian Illustrations of 17th Century Mughals, Rajputs and Marathas