Isma'il Kashmiri

Isma’il Kashmiri liked to borrow from the royal studio next door. He painted the same plum tree—slightly bent at the crown—over and over, like an artist stuck on a favorite sketch. That tree appears in the background of a tiny album page from around 1590, its purple fruit the only color in a sheet crowded with calligraphy and figures. Tap it; the whole page zooms out to show how Kashmiri turned a private habit into a signature you can trace from Delhi to Lahore.