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Folio from the “Late Shah Jahan Album”

(late 15th century to 1545)
Folio, borders, illumination about 1650–58; calligraphy about 1505–45
Object PlaceNorthern India
Object PlaceBukhara, Iran or Uzbekistan
Medium/TechniqueInk, color, and gold on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 38.3 × 25.5 cm (15 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of John Goelet
Accession number60.170
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCalligraphy
Collections
Provenance1960, gift of John Goelet, Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 10, 1960)
Equestrian portrait of Nadir Shah Afshar
Muhammad Ali ibn Abd al-Bayg ibn Ali Quli Jabbadar
about 1740– 45
Hawking Party
Mirza 'Ali
Verso about 1570; recto after 1583
Girl Reading
Mirza 'Ali
about 1570
Album page
16th century
First Leaf of Muragga
early 16th century
Calligraphy in Persian
between 1628–47
A Persian Quatrain from Hafiz
Muhammad Baqir
AH 1183 = 1769–70