Joy & Play, works
253–288 of 10,629 works, most celebrated first
A Hundred Birds and the Three Friends
Tiger Family
An African Lyre Player (recto); Calligraphy (verso)
Kalighat Painting
A prince celebrating Holi with palace women on a terrace at night (recto); calligraphy of a quatrain (verso)
Puppies, Sparrows, and Chrysanthemums
The Sand-Carrying Festival (Sunamochi Matsuri)
Two Putti
A marbled picture of Rustam catching Rakhsh
The merchant’s daughter encounters a wolf and bandits on her way to meet the gardener in order to keep her promise, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night
Three suitors fight amongst themselves for the hand of the devotee’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
The wolf and the jackal, serving as viziers, instigate the lion who pursues the Brahman up a tree, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-first Night
Girls Spraying Each Other at Holi
Maharana Jagat Singh Attending the Raslila
A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)
The Saltmaker's Story
Holiday on the Hudson
Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso), from a Kalighat album
An African Lyre Player (recto)
Puppies, Sparrows, and Chrysanthemums
Three Musicians Perform Before a King: Shri Raga, from a Ragamala
A dancing dervish and three musicians, from a Divan (Collected Poems) of Urfi (Persian, 1555–1591)
Dancers in a Pavilion
Tigers and Leopard Frolicking
Monkeys in a Cherry Tree; Monkeys on a Rock Ledge
The vagabond crosses a stream with the possessions of the daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras and absconds, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night
The lover’s son makes an elephant of the pastry dough carried by the unfaithful wife and puts it in her basket, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
The Peaceable Kingdom
Raja Ram Chand of Amber (r. 1667–88) Hunting Wild Boar
Monkeys in a Cherry Tree
Swinging Gibbon
Scenes from the Tales of Ise
A Group of Women in Ecstasy Before Madhava, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala
Maharana Sangram Singh II of Mewar (r. 1710–34) and Stages a Boar Hunt with Tigers at Sadri
Puppies, Sparrows, and Chrysanthemums
A Family of Tartars