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Prince Salim

Painting
ca. 1630 (made)
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.

Object details

Categories
Royalty
Paintings
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitlePrince 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 height 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 createdMay 14, 2008
Record URL
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