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From Dohras (Songs) 36 and 40, from the Kitab-i Nauras of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II (recto)
calligraphy by Khalilullah Butshikan (Persian, active in India 1596–c. 1620)
1618
- Medium
- ink with two-tone gold on paper, double-sided
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Page: 20.6 x 11 cm (8 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Southwestern India, Karnataka, Bijapur, Court of Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1570–1627)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
