Indian and Persian paintings

Studying the botanical world in paintings

Indian paintings from the Fitzwilliam Museum

  • Portrait of Shah 'Abbas II holding a spray of flowers in his right hand, and taking a bow out of a case with the left

  • Emperor Jahangir standing facing right in a flowery meadow, with a sword in his left hand late, 17th Century

  • Rama reclining against Sita, while his brother Lakshmana draws a thorn from his foot

  • Calligrapher at work, watched by a youth; they are seated on a carpet under a flowering tree

  • Two men with archer's rings on thumbs, dressed in white muslin clothes, one giving the other a lemon (or mango?)

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