Prince Salim

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Artist/Maker	Bichitr (artist)
Place of origin	Mughal Empire (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a young prince, Prince Salim (later Emperor Jahangir) holding a mirror in a jewelled frame of European design. The knife (kard) suspended from his belt has a knob in the form of a slightly tilted human head.

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Categories	Royalty Paintings Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Title	Prince Salim (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper Opaque Watercolour Gold Paper Painted
Brief description	Painting, Prince Salim, by Bichitr, opaque watercolour on paper, Mughal, ca. 1630
Physical description	Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a young prince, Prince Salim (later Emperor Jahangir) holding a mirror in a jewelled frame of European design. The knife (kard) suspended from his belt has a knob in the form of a slightly tilted human head.
Dimensions	Page width 38.8cm height: 25cm Page width 26.4 width: 18.1cm
Content description	A young prince, Prince Salim (later Emperor Jahangir) holding a mirror in a jewelled frame of European design. The knife (kard) suspended from his belt has a knop in the form of a slightly tilted human head.
Style	Mughal
Object history	From the Minto Album.
Production	Mughal court
Subjects depicted	Prince Knife Mirror
Bibliographic references	The Indian Heritage. Court life and Arts under Mughal Rule London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982 Number: ISBN 0 906969 26 3 Robert Skelton, cat. no. 50, p. 41 Ashmore, Sonia. "Muslin", London, V&A Publishing, 2012. p. 17, fig. 8. R. Elgood, Vol. 10, 2004, "Mughal Arms and the Indian Court Tradition", p. 84, fig. 10.
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IM.28-1925

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Record created	May 14, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O154637/prince-salim-painting-bichitr/

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