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| Keywords: Indian - Single Leaf of a Portrait of Shahriyar - Walters W697 - Detail.jpg This Mughal drawing Walters manuscript leaf W 697 is of a young man identified by the inscription as Shahriyar who was the youngest son of the 4th Mughal Emperor Jahangir died 1037 AH/AD 1627 It dates to the 11th century AH/AD 17th Shahriyar is shown in profile position which is common in Mughal painting especially in depictions of court ceremonies The portrait is a preparatory drawing for a manuscript painting It may have been at a later stage that the window frame and hand were drawn to suggest a jharoka scene The buff-tinted and gold-sprinkled border is attributable to the12th century AH/AD 18th The portrait is inscribed shabih-i Shariyar in red Nasta'liq script 11th century AH/AD 17th century Mughal ink and pigments on paper mounted on pasteboard cm 18 12 5 ; Image cm 5 3 4 2 accession number W 697 26667 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin India Walters Art Museum license 2D 17th-century Mughal miniatures Mughal miniatures in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
