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The false Mansur punished before the judge and expelled from the city, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night
Four-armed goddess, with hearts in margin
Dragon and Tiger
Nanda and the Elders in Council with the Cowherds, from a Bhagavata Purana
The tale of the three men trapped in a cave by a rolling boulder, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night
Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass
Palace Landscape
River Village: Fisherman's Joy
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
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
Peonies
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
The handmaiden again appeals for justice and the prince is led to the place of execution for the third time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Sketch for "The Oriental Dream"
A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder
Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain
Lake Scene
Text, folio 22 (verso) from a Yoga-shastra of Hemachandra
Khalis repays the prince for his kindness by changing into a snake and sucking the poison from the king’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Maharana Jawan Singh of Mewar (r. 1828–38) Holding a Falcon
Waterfall
Lady Xuanwen Giving Instruction on the Rites of Zhou
Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm
Peonies and Rocks
Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602)
Krishna Playing with the Gopis in the Yamuna
New Year's Day in a Village at Stone Lake
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
Album of Landscapes: Leaf 5
Adoration of young Krishna
Lovers and beloveds: A composite of scenes from Persian, Urdu, and Sanskrit literature
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Scholar watching Fish
King Bana in his court, from an Usha-Aniruddha
Hunting with falcons in a landscape; verso: Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish poems in praise of wine, Sultan Muhammad Nur (Persian, c. 1472–1536) and Mirza Muhammad (probably Persian, active c. 1520s)
Daoist Immortal on a Qilin and Two Attendants
Feast where Vishnu decides he will incarnate as King Dasharatha’s sons, from Chapters 14–15 of the "Bala Kanda" (Book of Childhood) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)
Bhima’s consultation with the astrologer, from a Nala-Damayanti
The parrot laughs on hearing the Raja of Ujjain’s wife admire her beauty in a mirror, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Forty-sixth Night
Landscape in the Manner of Ma Yuan
Palace Ladies
Courtesan
Li Tieguai; Liu Haichan
Samantabhadra on an Elephant with Two Attendants
The Sword Spring, Tiger Hill, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou
Folio 22 from a Yoga-shastra of Hemachandra: Jain Monk with disciple and two laymen, two Nuns, and a laywoman (recto); Text (verso)
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)
Landscape after Mi Fu