Indian Illustrations from 18th Century Albums

Portrait of a warrior, seated on the ground, with shield and staff and halo. Ms Ousley Add. 171, fol. 14v

War elephant attacking a horse and rider. Ms Ousley Add. 171, fol. 23v

The Turkoman prisoner; a man kneeling, with his wrist fettered to his neck, and a quiver of arrows on his belt. Ms Ousley Add. 173, fol. 1v Compare: Prisoner, in a 16th century Persian painting. Referenced as Illustration 190, p199 in Tamara Talbot Rice, Ancient Arts of Central Asia, 1965 190 Persian miniature of a Turcoman prisoner, c. 1595, serves to show how the latter schools of Persia were influenced by the artists of Bezeklik (Ills. 187, 188)

Nawab Sa'd-allahkhan, the wazir of Shajahan, d. 1656, with sword and shield. Ms Douce Or. a.3, fol. 20r