Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, from the St. Petersburg Album
Object Details
- Artist
- Bichitr (active between ca. 1615 -1640)
- Margins by Muhammad Sadiq
- Court
- Mughal Court
- School/Tradition
- Mughal school
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Body Image (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
- Worlds within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran (July 28 to September 16, 2012)
- Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries (June 24 to September 16, 2007)
- Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)
- Masterworks of Indian Painting (December 13, 1997 to June 13, 1998)
- South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)
- The Arts of South Asia (May 13, 1985 to December 2, 1985)
- The Imperial Image: Painting for the Mughal Court (September 25, 1981 to 30 March 1982)
- Indian Art (January 1, 1963 to January 28, 1981)
- Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Art, Gallery 8 (July 15, 1958 to January 1, 1963)
- Centennial Exhibition, West Corridor (February 25, 1956 to July 11, 1958)
- Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Painting, 1955 (October 24, 1955 to November 28, 1955)
- Untitled Exhibition, Mughal Painting, 1947 (April 23 to September 30, 1947)
- Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Paintings and Sculpture (October 2, 1947 to February 25, 1956)
- Untitled Exhibition, Mughal Painting (December 20, 1944 to April 23, 1947)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- ca. 1615-1618, margins 1747-48
- Period
- Mughal dynasty, Reign of Jahangir
- Accession Number
- F1942.15a
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Album
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 25.3 × 18 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/16 in)
- H x W (border): 46.9 × 30.7 cm (18 7/16 × 12 1/16 in)
- Origin
- India
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- moon
- Sufism
- sun
- Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)
- Reign of Jahangir (1605 - 1627)
- hourglass
- Sufi
- India
- emperor
- South Asian and Himalayan Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1942.15a
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye32856de11-cc8b-466f-b2b1-8eba6e4b7fc0
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