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In the PalaceZhou Wenju
Maharao Ram Singh II of Kota (r. 1828–66) Worships Brij Nathji as the Bridegroom1820
Album of Calligraphy and PaintingsBian Shoumin · 1726
Mrs. GossCaroline L. Ormes Ransom · 1854
CalligraphyTanomura Chikuden · 1822
Thomas Abthorpe CooperJohn Wesley Jarvis · 1810
Mary Fairlie CooperWilliam Dunlap · 1814
The Cliffs at Beg-ar-Fry, Saint-Jean-du-DoigtMaxime Maufra · 1898
Henry C. RanneyFreeman Willis Simmons · 1913
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
A Couple (from the series Costumes and Professions)1850
Kaiwan, Latif, and Sharif arrive at a house of worship, where they seek help from Khurshid who has become a mystical healer, from a Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night1560
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
Miniature Album with Figures and Landscape (Landscape with Hill, House, Boat and Bridge)Zeng Yangdong · 1822
Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: A Monk Preaching (recto); Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: text (verso)1290
George Washington at PrincetonCharles Willson Peale · 1790
A Traveler Persuades Lorik to Return Home (top); Chanda Objects (bottom), from a Chandayana (Story of Chanda)1535
Sally Avery OldsJeptha Wade · 1837
Hunting on Horses1750
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-third night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)1560
Marguerite-Juliette PierretEugène Delacroix · 1827
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page1560
The two cooks, who attempt to seduce the warrior’s loyal wife, are trapped by her in a cellar, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourth Night1560
Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: text describing descent of Mahavira into the womb of the Brahman woman Devananda (verso)1290
Scenes from the Tale of Genji1749
Well at the Side of a RoadAdolphe Appian · 1864
Madame CaseEugène Carrière · 1900
The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover (Utka Nayika)1800
Ghatotkacha and three demons in his company chase Bhagadatta, from Bhishma-parva (volume six) of a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (PersFazl · 1616
Folio 18 from a Chandana Malayagiri Varta (Story of King Chandana and Queen Malayagiri) of Karamachand: Ravana battles the great vulture Jatayu and defeats him by throwing stones in his mouth (recto); Jatayu approaches Rama and Lakshmana who are wond1745
Parvati Placing a Wedding Garland on Shiva (recto), from a Kalighat album1896
The Mass of Saint GregoryHans Baldung Grien · 1511
The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth NightLalu · 1560
Boat BuilderJohn George Brown · 1904