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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This Mughal drawing is of a young man, identified by the inscription as Shahriyār, who was the youngest son of the fourth Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr (d. 1037 AH / 1627 CE). It dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. Shahriyār is shown in profile position, which is common in Mughal painting, especially in depictions of court ceremonies. The portrait is a preparatory drawing for a manuscript painting. It may have been at a later stage that the window frame and hand were drawn to suggest a jharoka scene. The buff-tinted and gold-sprinkled border is attributable to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. The portrait is inscribed shabīh-i Shariyār in red nastaʿlīq script.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in red
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
India
11th century AH / 17th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
India
11th century AH / 17th CE
leaf
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This Mughal drawing is of a young man, identified by the inscription as Shahriyār, who was the youngest son of the fourth Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr (d. 1037 AH / 1627 CE). It dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. Shahriyār is shown in profile position, which is common in Mughal painting, especially in depictions of court ceremonies. The portrait is a preparatory drawing for a manuscript painting. It may have been at a later stage that the window frame and hand were drawn to suggest a jharoka scene. The buff-tinted and gold-sprinkled border is attributable to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. The portrait is inscribed shabīh-i Shariyār in red nastaʿlīq script.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in red
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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