Painting
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Painting” now? Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Unknown.
Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Calligraphy was always regarded as more important than painting at the court of the Muslim Mughals. Jahangir and Shah Jahan preserved examples of the work of the greatest Iranian and Mughal calligraphers in albums. Their artists added illumination between the lines, and ornate borders. The minute birds have been included by the anonymous illuminator to the gold ground between the lines of Persian prose and a sura from the Koran.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Details
- Accession number
- IM.233-1921
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
