Ira Mukhotyさんのイラストまとめ

Gorgeous night time scene of ladies visiting a mixed gathering of holy men including a hindu ascetic and a Sufi sheikh. Note the four alams
Bodleian library, Douce collection, mid 18th c Awadh

Exquisite portrait of a teenage Dara Shukoh, bare torso and simple lungi, sitting in a gomukhasan yogic pose. The prince had a lifelong engagement with Sufism as well as Hinduism

Mughal, 1640-55, probably Warren Hastings collection, sold at auction

An Indian elephant, a Renaissance master and a Pope

In 1516 Raphael drew this portrait of Hanno, an elephant, and his mahout, which had been sent to king Manuel of Portugal from Kochi. Manuel then sent Hanno as a gift to Pope Leo X, hoping for political favours

Berlin museum

English servants Indian style

The English servants in the train of Lord Moira, later Marquess Hastings, painted by Sita Ram with rather tight smiles. Hastings made a long journey from Calcutta to Delhi in 1814, recorded by Sita ram in watercolours
British library

Stunning example of one of the very best calligraphy produced at Akbar’s court in this 1583 copy of Saadi’s Gulistan, produced at Fatehpur by Zarrin Qalam

Now at the RAS, via Neil Edmonstone, once Resident at Awadh in the 18th c

The shimmering clothes of nawabi Lucknow required the labour of many skilled artisans

A craftsman in the 18 th c is pounding a strip of gold into a thin tape to be would around silk to thread.

British library

‘khuda e Sukhan’ Mir Taqi Mir, one of the great Urdu poets, in one of the only portraits of him in old age to have survived. Fleeing Delhi after the chas of 1739, he never reconciled himself to the culture of Lucknow.
Lucknow, 1800, Relia collection

Elephants fighting signed Khurshid Banu, 1600. Women miniature artists are poorly documented, but they do exist, even within the Mughal royal family, as attested by this fine image now at the Ashmolean

Raja Rai Singh of Bikaner was a favourite of Akbar and a perfect Mughal courtier- a brave warrior, a writer of Sanskrit texts, and a patron of culture. 16th c ⁦@MIAQatar⁩