Babur Entertains in Sultan Ibrahim Lodi’s Palace from a Baburnama
Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Baburnama (Tuzuk-i Baburi) by Zahir-al- Din Muhammad Babur; left-hand half of a double- page composition with no facing folio; Babur entertains in Sultan Ibrahim Lodi’s Palace; marginal inscription; one of a group of three folios.
Border: the painting is set in gold, red, and black rulings in a border with landscape and bird and animal motifs, mounted within borders of a Rawdat al-Safa page.
- Provenance
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To 1912
Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani, London, England. [1]From 1912 to 1942
Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, purchased from Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani, London, England on June 21, 1912. [2]From 1942 to 1986
Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [3]From 1986
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [4]Notes:
[1] See Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 406. See also Glen D. Lowry and Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 2: Ledger of Acquisitions, 1894 and 1907-17" in A Jeweler’s Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 232.
[2] See note 1.
[3] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
[4] See note 3.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani
Henri Vever 1854-1942
Francois Mautin 1907-2003
- Description
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Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Baburnama (Tuzuk-i Baburi) by Zahir-al- Din Muhammad Babur; left-hand half of a double- page composition with no facing folio; Babur entertains in Sultan Ibrahim Lodi's Palace; marginal inscription; one of a group of three folios.
Border: the painting is set in gold, red, and black rulings in a border with landscape and bird and animal motifs, mounted within borders of a Rawdat al-Safa page.
- Inscription(s)
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Margin: Farrukh Beg
- Published References
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- Glenn D. Lowry, Milo Cleveland Beach, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemanzee, Janet Snyder. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 62, p. 50, 52.
- Milo Cleveland Beach. The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court., 2nd ed. Washington and Ahmedabad, India, 2012. cat. 8C, pp. 64-5.
- Collection Area(s)
- South Asian and Himalayan Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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