Allegory genre — works
6,481–6,516 of 8,397 works · most celebrated first
The court of the Raja of Ujjain, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-sixth Night
The lover of Hamnaz, who has been hanged from the gallows, bites off her nose when she kisses him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night
The Illustrated Tale of Oishi Hyōroku
Tannhäuser
The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika
The merchant’s clerk replaces the sugar purchased by the philandering wife with gravel, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Two Putti
Shahr-Arai and her lover dallying on a bed beneath which is concealed her husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night
A floral fantasy of animals and birds (Waq-waq)
Terminus, the Device of Erasmus
A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband who has just arrived, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
A Eunuch's Dream
Lovers and beloveds: A composite of scenes from Persian, Urdu, and Sanskrit literature
The Monkey and the Cat
Bhima’s consultation with the astrologer, from a Nala-Damayanti
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)
Shri Raga, from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies)
Astronomer
Old age and youth
Allegory of Dawn
Sancho Panza and Dapple (from Cervantes' 'Don Quixote')
The Dream of Queen Katherine (from William Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII', Act IV, Scene 2) (fragment)
Catherine de Médicis with the Head of Coligny
The Cumaean Sibyl (after Domenichino)
Shakespeare's Principal Characters
Diana and Callisto
The Entombment (study for the painting in the Chapel of the Ascension, Bayswater Road)
The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (after Titian)
Saint Hilary Surrounded by Angels (copy of the fresco in the cupola of Parma Cathedral)
Saint John the Evangelist on Pathmos
The School of Athens (after Raphael)
Bird-Catching by a Decoy with a Whistle and Net (Decorative painting for a supper-box at Vauxhall Gardens, London)
St Leo in Glory (sketch for the ceiling of the church of San Lio, Venice)
Decorative painting for the Breakfast Room at Kedleston Hall
William and Mary Presenting the Cap of Liberty to Europe (sketch for the painted ceiling of the Great Hall, Greenwich Hospital)
A Chinese Princess at a Shrine (one of eleven panels with Chinoiserie decoration)