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The dervish brings in as dowry an elephant laden with gold, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night1560
Study of a Shepherd1700
Benjamin RouseJohn Wesley Jarvis · 1819
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
Young Woman Arranging Her EarringAuguste Renoir · 1905
Bejeweled Buddha Preaching1648
Akbar Mounting his Horse; page from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama (History of Akbar)Sur Das Gujarati · 1606
Sir Thomas More1600
The three young men present themselves as suitors for the hand of Zuhra, the daughter of the merchant of Kabul, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night1560
Khurshid reunited with her husband Utarid, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night1560
A Pair of PeafowlLin Liang · 1498
TraditionKenyon Cox · 1916
Shah Jahan holding a spinel and a long Deccan sword, from the Late Shah Jahan AlbumHashim · 1650
Han Yige1506
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
Shahr-Arai and her husband adopt her lover as a brother in the family, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night1560
Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain1612
The tale of the three men trapped in a cave by a rolling boulder, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night1560
Weizheng Riding on an OxYamaguchi Sekkei · 1694
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fortieth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)1560
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
A European CoupleAli Riza · 1618
The young prince is presented to the king, his father, by his teacher, but refuses to speak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night1560
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
BlacksmithsJacques-Émile Blanche · 1896
On Bos’n’s HillEdmund Charles Tarbell · 1901
MidnightJean Charles Cazin · 1896
Cobbler's QuartersJean Alphonse Duplessy · 1864
Horses and Grooms in the Stable1512
Tortoise1749
Miniature Album with Figures and Landscape (Waterfall Landscape)Zeng Yangdong · 1822
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
Maharana Jawan Singh of Mewar (r. 1828–38) Holding a FalconGhasi · 1835
Flowers and Birds in a Spring LandscapeKano Motonobu · 1529
Susuki Grass1525
The marriage of ‘Ubaid, son of a merchant of Tirmiz, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night1560