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Find the round cloths covering the platters of gifts, then the horses and camels being led in at the bottom of the page.
The Turkic conqueror Timur (1336 to 1405) was Akbar’s most celebrated ancestor on his father’s side. Here he sits on a terrace under a crimson awning, on a blue carpet whose gold border marks his rank, and hands out the horses, camels and luxuries sent by his grandson, the Prince of Multan, to his followers according to their merits. Shravana, who had worked on the Tales of a Parrot about 1560, painted this page in 1598 to 1600.
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper · Sheet: 28.2 x 20.2 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories)
- Artist
- Shravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600)
- Date
- 1598–1600
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.); Image: 14.7 x 9.8 cm (5 13/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.