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Overdoor PaintingPierre Rousseau · 1798
Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: A Monk Preaching (recto)1290
Samantabhadra1163
Bridge at Poissy (Pêcheurs à ligne)Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier · 1891
Autumn Scene in the AdirondacksWilliam Hart · 1889
A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder1740
The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ordered away to be executed for the fifth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night1560
Maharana Sangram Singh II of Mewar (r. 1710–34) and Stages a Boar Hunt with Tigers at Sadri1720
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Puppies, Sparrows, and ChrysanthemumsNagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 · 1788
EddyvilleSamuel Halpert · 1917
The deceitful wife persuades her husband to sleep in the same place where she had previously slept with her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night1560
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Flowers and Birds in a Spring LandscapeKano Motonobu · 1050
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Sudhana and a buffalo, folio 115 (recto) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)1100
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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 Night1560
Poem-card from the Shinkokin wakashu (New Collection of Japanese Poems from Ancient and Modern Times) with Design of Pine on a BeachHonami Kōetsu · 1606
The Brahman gambler sees the daughter of the king of the jinns in a pit together with an old man and a cauldron of boiling oil, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventh Night)1560
Maharaja Balwant Singh of Ratlam (r. 1825–57) in Procession with His Relatives and Courtiers1825
The Raja’s daughter, born with three breasts, accompanies her blind husband and his hunchback guide on a journey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night1560
Narcissus and RocksLu Tianru · 1506
Album of Calligraphy and PaintingsBian Shoumin · 1700
Winter and Summer FlowersKaihō Yūshō · 1600
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Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra and Courtiers1792
The Madonna of IvoryHenry Keller · 1924
The magician disguised as a Brahman returns to claim his “daughter-in-law,” from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fifth Night1560
Album of Calligraphy and PaintingsBian Shoumin · 1726
The TroubadourHonoré Daumier · 1868
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