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Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
A Family of Tartars
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Man Dhata in Yogi Position
Kali Standing on Shiva (verso), from a Kalighat album
Rajput Box with Various Scenes
The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
A Princess and Demons before a Nobleman: A Leaf from a Poetical Romance Relating to Shah Alam I (recto); Stenciled Scenes of Lion and Gazelle (verso)
Horse Stable
Nathaniel Olds
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Goddess Mangala, from a Devi Series
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Worship of Stone Image of Shiva and Parvati within a Shrine
From Dohras (Songs) 40 and 42 from the Kitab-i Nauras (Book of Nine Essences) of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur (r. 1580–1627); verso: From Dohras (Songs) 40 and 36 from the Kitab-i Nauras of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II
The king gives his daughter in marriage to the pious man’s son, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night
Water Buffalo and Herdboys
Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: Enthroned Monk (recto); Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: Text (verso)
Oxen before a Farmhouse at Le Verrier
British Manufactory; A Sketch
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
The merchant’s daughter gives birth to a son as a result of eating out of the box. The clever child recognizes the false gems from true, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha
Scenes from the Tales of Ise
Mountain Landscape in Moonlight
Battle Scene at Kurukshetra from the Mahabharata War (verso), from a Kalighat album
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page (blank)
The Emir slays the snake after giving it shelter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-fifth Night
A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto)
Seated Priest
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Leaf from a Kalighat album: Jatayu hinders Ravana’s chariot, trying to prevent the abduction of Sita (recto); Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso)
Cartouche decorated with flowergarlands surrounding a portrait of archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1610-1665)
Dog with pups
Needlefish (Yagara)
Gosain Narottam Das
The wolf advises the lion to consult the cat, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifteenth Night
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Kandala Dies on Hearing the News of Madhava’s Death, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Welcoming Descent of Amida Buddha (Raigō)
Shri Raga, from a Ragamala
Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra (verso)