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Umber artworks
8,977–9,024 of 113,407 umber works · most celebrated first
Birds and Flowers
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Still life with a "roemer", a fallen jug and a lobster
Diagrams of the Universe: The Two-and-a-Half Continents, the Universe in the Shape of a Person, and the Seven Levels of Hell
The merchant’s clerk replaces the sugar purchased by the philandering wife with gravel, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Portrait of Sukey, Lady Oglander, née Serle
Miroku (Maitreya)
Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl
Kalighat Painting
Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar (r. 1778–1828) with a Consort
A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)
The farmer, father of the son with the deceitful wife, steals away with her anklet while she is in bed with her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Altarpiece with The Passion of Christ
Prajnaparamita flanked by a white female figure and a white bodhisattva, folio 90 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
An Ambassador before Humayun
The Crossing of the Yangzi River
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
The king’s handmaiden takes the prince away to the harem, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Jaswant Singh of Jodhpur (reigned 1635–1678)
The painting made by the vizier of the emperor of China for the queen of Rum, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-ninth Night
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
The Life of Buckingham
A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants
Page from the Late Shah Jahan Album: Persian Calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Miniature Album with Figures and Landscape (Man and Woman)
Fujiwara no Muchimaro
At the Café La Mie
Kali Attacking Nisumbha
Akbar and Jahangir Examine a Ghir Falcon while Prince Khusrau Stands Behind
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
A noble, probably Raja Gaur Sen, receives another noble
Puppies, Sparrows, and Chrysanthemums
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
The Four Seasons
Autumn in the Mountains
Sense of Smell
Virgin and Child
Nicolas Louis Faret
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Portrait of Sandford Peacocke
Farming and Herding Buffalo in Summer
Famous Views of Ōmi
The two erring cooks, dressed as maidservants, fall at the prince’s feet and beg forgiveness, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of the Parrot): Fourth Night