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| Keywords: Mauláná Jalál al-Dín..jpg en Drawing album Portrait Mauláná Jalál al-Dín Drawn and tinted on paper Jalal al-Din Rumi and Hafiz Mughal India early 19th century Ink and watercolour on paper The posthumous portraits of these two famous Persian poets have been placed in an album of drawings and paintings of dignitaries and kings The English inscriptions on the left hand page describes Rumi 1207-73 'Mowlana Djelaleddin a Turk of Natoly Anatolia author of the Mesnevi mathnavi Rumi an excellent treatise of ethics in Persian verses sung all over Persia Turkey and in India in companies The English inscriptions above the drawing on the right misidentified the poet Hafiz 1325-90 whose name appears in Persian in the lower margin While the pose of Hafiz and the book next to him identify him as a poet these attributes are not specific to him alone By contrast the enormous turban and sleeves profile pose and wrinkled face are traits that regularly appear in posthumous portraits of the mystical poet Rumi He was Persian by birth but settled in Konya in Anatolia 19thC early http //www britishmuseum org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details aspx objectid 231633 partid 1 searchText mughal fromADBC ad toADBC ad numpages 10 images on orig 2fresearch 2fsearch_the_collection_database aspx currentPage 81 author PD-Art Rumi | ||||
