Paintings
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Falcon on a Perch
Krishna Abhisarika Nayika, from a Rasikapriya manuscript
Portrait of Gadadhar Prasad
Drawing of a Man’s Head with an Unusual Turban
Prince Mathu Singh of Jatoli on a Blue Horse Riding to Udaipur
Krishna watches the milkmaids circumambulating a sacred tree: The month of Jyestha (May–June), from a Barahmasa (The Twelve Months)
Vishnu on Ananta, the Endless Serpent
Krishna and Radha Quarreling: Shatha Nayaka, from a Rasikapriya
Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham of Balkh Visited by Angels
Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala
Still Life: Bouquet of Flowers Emerging from the Grass
Feast where Vishnu decides he will incarnate as King Dasharatha’s sons, from Chapters 14–15 of the "Bala Kanda" (Book of Childhood) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)
The Goddess Annihilates the Demon Raktabija, from a Devi-Mahatmya
Three Musicians Perform Before a King: Shri Raga, from a Ragamala
Women Play Music for Radha and Krishna: Chitrini Nayika, from a Rasikapriya
Two Women Pluck Flowers on a Terrace: Gunakali Ragini, from a Ragamala
A Brahmin gives Krishna the Message or Invitation for the Competition to Rukmini’s Svayamvara, from a Bhagavata Purana
Krishna Lifts Mount Govardhan, from a Bhagavata Purana
Krishna and the Cowherds Dive into the River, from a Rasikapriya
Krishna and Radha Avoid Embarrassment: Mottaita Bhava, from a Rasikapriya
Portrait of Prince Sur Singh Rathor of Bikaner (1594–1631)
Krishna Under a Canopy
A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants
Krishna Exacts a Toll from the Milkmaids: Dana-Lila, from a Bhagavata Purana
Five Poses of Krishna Making Love, from a Bikaner Bhagavata Purana
Krishna and Consort on a Palace Balcony with Musicians: Vukharo Ragaputra of Bhairav, from the “Boston Ragamala”
Woman Longing for Her Lover: Verati Ragini of Dipak, from a Ragamala
A Prince Performs Austerities (recto); Shiva and His Followers Return to Mount Kailash (verso), from a Romance of Chandrabhanu and Lavanyavati of Upendra Bhanja (1670–1740)
Noblewoman at a Jharokha Window Holding a Rose, from a Portraits of Women series
St Vincent de Paul at the Deathbed of Louis XIII
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As punishment, the jester’s wife and the Zangi are thrown into fire and the emir’s wife and the mahout are trampled by an elephant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Twenty-second Night
The sentinel in the employ of the Shah of Tabaristan prepares to sacrifice his son to the ghost of the Shah’s soul, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Second Night
The forty wives and their secret paramours being punished by stoning to death, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-third Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
The merchant’s daughter gives birth to a son as a result of eating out of the box. The clever child recognizes the false gems from true, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
The merchant has the hateful skull ground and put into a box, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
Kamjuy, the wife of the Raja, averts her face from the fishes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
The prince meets a carefree dancing dervish whose good fortune he purchases for his ring, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
The young man, who has magically taken on the appearance of Mansur the merchant, arrives at his home, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night
The young man changes himself to look like Mansur, and thus inveigles himself into the bed of Mansur’s wife, but is put off by her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night
The false Mansur punished before the judge and expelled from the city, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Khalis repays the prince for his kindness by changing into a snake and sucking the poison from the king’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
The prince, having deprived the snake of its natural food, a frog, feeds it with a piece of his own flesh, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Nikfal, the fortune of the prince in the form of a woman, offers to accompany him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
The prince, with the help of Mukhlis who changes into a frog, recovers the ring lost in the sea, and returns it to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night