Public-domain art from Mughal India

200 public-domain plates · 15th century to 18th century · 74 attributed

• Portrait of Raja Bikramajit Lal Chand (Indian)c. 1620
• Page from the Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) Abd al-Rahim, the Anbarin-Qalam (Indian, active c. 1590–1630)c. 1605–10
• A holy man prostrating himself before a learned prince Manohar (Indian, active late 1500s)c. 1585; border added probably 1700s
• A Courtier, Possibly Khan Alam, Holding a Spinel and a Deccan Sword Govardhan (Indian, active c.1596–1645)c. 1605–1610
• A Courtier, Possibly Khan Alam, Holding a Spinel and a Deccan Sword Govardhan (Indian, active c.1596–1645)c. 1605–10
• Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish Poems in Praise of Wine (verso) Mirza Muhammad (probably Persian, active c. 1520s)c. 1500–1520
• Portrait of Maharaja Rai Singh of Bikaner (reigned 1574-1612) Nur Muhammad (Indian, active c. 1580–1630)c. 1590
• Yaja and Upayaja perform a sacrifice for the emergence of Dhrishtadyumna from the fire, from Adi-parva (volume one) of the Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614) from the Sanskrit Mahabharata Bilal Habshi (probably Ethiopian, active late 1500s)1598
• Ghatotkacha and three demons in his company chase Bhagadatta, from Bhishma-parva (volume six) of a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614) Fazl (Indian, active early 1600s)1616–17
• The old procuress conveys the young man’s message of love to Mansur’s wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventeenth Night Sravana (Indian)c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) Sravana (Indian)c. 1560
• The old man eats of the fruit of the Tree of Life, but drops dead, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s)c. 1560
• The prince, once reprieved, is returned to the palace of execution a second time on the plea of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Gujarati (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Eighth Night Gujarati (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The magic parrot of the merchant talks to the vizier’s son, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s)c. 1560
• The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made by a carpenter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s)c. 1560
• The king plucks fruit from the Tree of Life with his own hands and feeds it to a lady, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night Suraju (Indian)c. 1560
• The handmaiden appeals for justice and the prince is taken to the execution site for the fourth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Tara 2 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The handmaiden again appeals for justice and the prince is led to the place of execution for the third time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Gujarati (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The prince sent back to the place of execution for the sixth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Suraju (Indian)c. 1560
• A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband who has just arrived, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Gujarati (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Thirteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) Tara 1 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The deceitful wife assaults her erring husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Tara 1 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) Dasavanta (Indian)c. 1560
• The parrot brings a fruit from the Tree of Life to the king of Syria, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s)c. 1560
• Calligraphy Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)c. 1596
• Isfandiyar slays Arjasp, the king of Turan, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020) Haidar Kashmiri (Indian, active late 1500s-early 1600s)1600–1605
• The wife of the son of the vizier brings the magic wooden parrot to her lover, the monk, who exchanges it for the replica, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s)c. 1560
• The deceitful wife returns to her terrace after caressing her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Shravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600)c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twelfth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) Tara 1 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The king of the Ocean, having assumed human form, arrives at the court of the Raja, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night Ghulam 'Ali (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s)c. 1560
• The young prince recounts his experiences to his father, the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Suraju (Indian)c. 1560
• The astrologer predicts a calamity for the newly born prince in his thirteenth year, but one which he would be able to overcome, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Banavari 1 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The tale of the three men trapped in a cave by a rolling boulder, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night Bihzad (Persian, active in India mid-1500s)c. 1560
• An Ambassador before Humayun Miskin (Indian, active 1570s–c. 1604)c. 1610
• The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Shravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600)c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eleventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) Banavari 2 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The young prince is crowned and the wicked handmaiden is executed, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Suraju (Indian)c. 1560
• The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s)c. 1560
• The wounded monkey bites the hand of the prince, his chessmate, in the presence of guests, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night Dasavanta (Indian, d. 1584)c. 1560
• The donkey, in a tiger’s skin, reveals his identity by braying aloud, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-first Night Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)c. 1560
• Portrait of Raja Jagat Singh of Nurpur (reigned 1618–46) Bichitr (Indian, active c. 1615–50)probably 1619
• The Magi Follow the Star (folio 34 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier Payag (Indian)1602–4
• Angels bring food to Jesus in the wilderness (folio 55 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier Muhammad Sharif (Indian, active c. 1600)1602–4
• Court Lady Pouring Wine (recto) Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s)c. 1760
• Hulagu Khan giving a feast and dispensing favor upon the amirs and princes, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) Lal (Indian, active c. 1555–1600)c. 1596–1600
• A Night Scene of Shiva Puja (recto) Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s)c. 1760–70
• A night scene of Shiva puja (recto); Calligraphy (verso) Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s)c. 1760–70
• Akbar supervising the capture of wild elephants at Malwa in 1564, painting 90 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian 1551–1602) Farukh Chela (Indian)c. 1602–3; borders added c. 1700s
• Portrait of a kneeling holy man, from the Prince Salim Album Mir Sayyid Ali (Persian, active in Iran 1540s–50, active in India 1555–1580)c. 1556–60; border c. 1602
• Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories) Shravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600)1598–1600
• Persian calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, from the Late Shah Jahan Album Mir 'Ali Haravi (Persian, active in Herat, Afghanistan, died c. 1550)calligraphy: c. 1500–1540; border: c. 1630–40
• Portrait of Murad Bakhsh (1624–61) Balchand (Indian, active 1595–c. 1650)c. 1635; borders c. 1700s
• The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ordered away to be executed for the fifth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night Ghulam 'Ali (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)c. 1560
• Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (reigned 1719–1748) holding a falcon (recto); Calligraphy (verso) Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s)1764
• A Mounted Prince Hunting Lion in a Rocky Landscape Khem Karan (Indian)c. 1600
• The monkey slain, his blood to be used as medicine for the ailing prince he has bitten, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night Basawan​ (Indian, active mid-1500s)c. 1560
• The hunter throws away the baby parrots, who pretend to be dead, and captures the mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)c. 1560
• Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (reigned 1719–1748) holding a falcon (recto) Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s)1764
• The parrot mother cautions her young on the danger of playing with foxes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night Dasavanta (Indian, d. 1584)c. 1560
• A mendicant bowing before a holy man, from the Prince Salim Album Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)c. 1585; inner border added in Allahabad c. 1602; outer border added probably 1900s
• A Royal Picnic on a Terrace Muhammad Ali (Persian, active 1590–1620)c. 1620
• The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, page from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian,1247–1318) Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)c. 1596
• Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602) Dharam Das (Indian, active c. 1580–1605)c. 1602–3
• The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian, 1247–1318) Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)c. 1596
• Hunting with falcons in a landscape; verso: Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish poems in praise of wine, Sultan Muhammad Nur (Persian, c. 1472–1536) and Mirza Muhammad (probably Persian, active c. 1520s) Abd al-Samad (Persian, c. 1510–1600)c. 1558–60; borders added probably 1700s
• Antelope and deer hunt Govardhan (Indian, active c.1596–1645)c. 1602–4
• Hunting with falcons in a landscape (recto) Abd al-Samad (Persian, c. 1510–1600)c. 1558–60; borders added probably 1700s
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) Iqbal (Indian, active 1550s-1590s)c. 1560
• Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600)c. 1600
• Nur Jahan holding a portrait of Emperor Jahangir Bishandas (Indian)c. 1627
• Princess and attendant in trompe l’oeil window Aqil Khan (Indian, active mid-1700s)c. 1765
• A Man Dips His Hand into a Cauldron as Ladies of the Harem Stand in Amazement: A Page from a Manuscript of Religious History c. 1600
• An Illuminated Folio from the Royal Manuscript of the Farhang-i Jahangiri (verso) 1607–8
• An Illuminated Folio from the Royal Manuscript of the Farhang-i Jahangiri (recto) 1607–8
• From the Farhang-i Jahangiri (Persian-language Dictionary) compiled by Mir Jamal al-Din Husayn Inju of Shiraz (Persian, d. 1626) 1607–8
• Khurshid reunited with her husband Utarid, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night c. 1560
• The dethroned frog Shapur seeks the help of the serpent, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenth-sixth Night c. 1560
• Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page c. 1560
• Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page c. 1560
• Illuminated opening page (folio 1 verso) and 131 folios with Persian text, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–4; margins added with rebinding, about 1900
• Moses praying to end the serpents’ attack on the Israelites (folio 63 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–4
• The Marriage at Cana (folio 58 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–4
• Calligraphy framed by an ornamental border with poppies and pairs of birds, from the Late Shah Jahan Album (verso) c. 1653
• Jesus Heals the Nobleman’s Son in Capernaum (folio 70 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–4
• Jesus on Mount Tabor, near Nazareth where he Chooses Twelve of his Followers and Calls them Apostles (folio 87 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–04
• Jesus Raises Jairus’s Daughter from the Dead (folio 82 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–4
• Calligraphy of Lyrical Quatrains (verso) mid-1700s
• A Princess and Demons before a Nobleman: A Leaf from a Poetical Romance Relating to Shah Alam I (recto) c. 1710
• A Princess and Demons before a Nobleman: A Leaf from a Poetical Romance Relating to Shah Alam I (recto); Stenciled Scenes of Lion and Gazelle (verso) c. 1710
• Mahliqa, Daughter of the Emperor of China, Pointing at the Bird-Man Khwaja Mubarak: A Leaf from a Poetical Romance Relating to Shah Alam I (recto) c. 1710
• A Mughal Prince, Perhaps Danyal, Holding a Sprig of Flowers c. 1580–90
• A raven brings food to Elijah (folio 72 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier, 1602–4
• The Entry into Jerusalem (folio 156 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–4
• Pomander 1600s–1700s
• Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page c. 1560
• A House Burgled at Night c. 1700
• The place of Jesus’s birth (folio 25 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–4
• Mahliqa, Daughter of the Emperor of China, Pointing at the Bird-Man Khwaja Mubarak: A Leaf from a Poetical Romance Relating to Shah Alam I (verso); Stenciled Scenes of Lion and Gazelle (verso) c. 1710
• Portrait of Prince Murad Baksh (1624–1661) c. 1655
• Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier 1602–4
• A Mughal courtier c. 1575; border added probably 1700s
• The son of the pious man slays the dragon, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night c. 1560
• The king’s emissary being provided with gifts for his mission to Rum in order to seek the hand of the emperor’s daughter in marriage, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night c. 1560
• The snake, hidden in a basket of flowers, reveals himself to the Raja who has just sent away his wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-third Night c. 1560
• The merchant returns bringing a young slave who is really the son of the princess of Rum, now married to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night c. 1560
• The young man of Baghdad solicits advice from a friend as his slave girl, who is adept at music, awaits, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night c. 1560
• The third suitor, who is an archer, shoots the wicked fairy who has imprisoned Zuhra. He rides on a magic horse prepared by the second suitor and is led to the spot by the divining prowess of the first, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night c. 1560
• The pious man’s son presents the slain dragon to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night c. 1560
• Mahrusa’s marriage to the prefect of the city, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-sixth Night c. 1560
• The fourth man digs at the spot where he dropped the shell, expecting jewels, but discovering mere iron, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night c. 1560
• The four destitute friends go to a wise man who gives each one of them a magic shell to be placed on top of the turban, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night c. 1560
• Latif, who has murdered his brother, falsely accuses Khurshid of the deed, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-ninth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-Ninth Night c. 1560
• The painting made by the vizier of the emperor of China for the queen of Rum, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-ninth Night c. 1560
• The young man of Baghdad reunited with his slave-girl, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night c. 1560
• The Raja’s daughter and her lover stoned to death for adultery, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-Second Night c. 1560
• The prince, a son of the ruler of Sistan, enters the service of a snake, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-seventh Night c. 1560
• In order to falsely implicate her husband, Hamnaz places a knife by his side and lets the blood dripping from her nose stain his clothes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night c. 1560
• The guard spares the life of the slave when he learns that he is the son of the princess of the Rum, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night c. 1560
• The marriage of ‘Ubaid, son of a merchant of Tirmiz, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-seventh night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The destitute Mukhtar meets his wife Maimuna at a holy shrine, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night c. 1560
• The pious man’s son, now a king, reveals himself to his father; his nurse upbraids his unfaithful mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night c. 1560
• The eldest brother explains the reason for his youthful appearance, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-ninth Night c. 1560
• The Raja’s daughter, born with three breasts, accompanies her blind husband and his hunchback guide on a journey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-second night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-first night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-first Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fortieth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-eighth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The two couples reach a foreign city where they make their home, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third Night c. 1560
• The disguised Arab, substituting for Habbaza, is whipped by her husband for refusing a bowl of milk, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night c. 1560
• Kamjuy, the wife of the Raja, averts her face from the fishes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night c. 1560
• The Brahman’s wife who killed a peacock and ate its gallbladder on the physician’s advice, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Nineteenth Night c. 1560
• 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 c. 1560
• The daughter-in-law returns from her misadventure, feigning insanity, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night c. 1560
• Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night c. 1560
• The king gives his daughter in marriage to the pious man’s son, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night c. 1560
• The bird of seven colors brings a sable to the pious man, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fifty-second night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fifty-first night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first Night c. 1560
• The king places the talisman on his sleeping wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night c. 1560
• Shahr-Arai’s husband bends to kiss his wife who feigns sleep, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night c. 1560
• Mahrusa kills herself at the tomb of the king of Zabul, and her husband does likewise, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-sixth Night c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-fifth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• Habbaza’s sister, who is sent to console her, discovers the disguised Arab in her place, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night c. 1560
• The forty wives and their secret paramours being punished by stoning to death, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night c. 1560
• 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 c. 1560
• The pious man’s wife offers the seven-colored bird as food to her lover, but not finding its head, he breaks the pot and bowl in anger, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night c. 1560
• The gardener seizes and beats a donkey who insisted on braying, while the deer, its companion flees to safety, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-first Night c. 1560
• Shahr-Arai and her husband adopt her lover as a brother in the family, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night c. 1560
• The goldsmith judged; the bear cubs trained by the carpenter as though they were his sons, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Third Night c. 1560
• Bashir confides his love for Habbaza to an Arab friend, and sends him to her with a message, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-Fourth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras sees the jackal deprived of its food by a bird, as it unsuccessfully attempts to catch a fish, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night c. 1560
• Khusrau, the King of Kings, pays homage to the pious daughter of Khassa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first Night c. 1560
• Khulasa, a vizier, sees the daughter of Khassa, another vizier, and covets her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first Night c. 1560
• Shahr-Arai and her lover dallying on a bed beneath which is concealed her husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-sixth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Thirtieth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• Portrait of Asaf Khan (1569–1641), from the Late Shah Jahan Album c. 1653
• The merchant’s clerk replaces the sugar purchased by the philandering wife with gravel, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night c. 1560
• Repenting his conduct, ‘Ubaid falls at the feet of his parents, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night c. 1560
• The queen of Rum watches the peahen prefer to burn rather than abandon her eggs while the peacock flees the nest, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-ninth Night c. 1560
• Hearing her declaration of love, Ayaz falls at the feet of Mahmuda at the holy shrine. The scene is witnessed by Salim, Ayaz’s friend, and a maid, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third Night c. 1560
• Kaiwan sends a message of love to Khurshid, wife of his brother Utarid who is away on a journey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night c. 1560
• The invention of musical instruments from the intestines of a monkey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night c. 1560
• The unfaithful wife explaining away the presence of the dough elephant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night c. 1560
• The lover’s son makes an elephant of the pastry dough carried by the unfaithful wife and puts it in her basket, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night c. 1560
• King Bahram, who has married Khassa’s daughter, has her tied to a camel to be abandoned in the desert as a result of false accusations made by Khulasa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first Night c. 1560
• The guard restores the son who falls at his mother’s feet, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fiftieth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night c. 1560
• The young man of Baghdad joins the Hashimi’s boat as a sailor to find his slave-girl on board, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night c. 1560
• The merchant of Tirmiz takes the wise parrot and myna to ‘Ubaid, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night c. 1560
• The king of Zabul sees Mahrusa from his palace balcony, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-sixth Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-fourth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• Kaiwan, Latif, and Sharif arrive at a house of worship, where they seek help from Khurshid who has become a mystical healer, from a Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night c. 1560
• 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 c. 1560
• The third suitor strikes the devotee’s daughter and thus restores her to life, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night c. 1560
• Three suitors fight amongst themselves for the hand of the devotee’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night c. 1560
• The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The false Mansur punished before the judge and expelled from the city, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night c. 1560
• The vagabond crosses a stream with the possessions of the daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras and absconds, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night c. 1560
• The daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras, charmed by the music of a vagabond, comes down to meet him, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night c. 1560
• The prince being taken away for execution on the false complaint of the handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night c. 1560
• The three young men present themselves as suitors for the hand of Zuhra, the daughter of the merchant of Kabul, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-third night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-second night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The three suitors again begin to quarrel among themselves for the hand of the devotee’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night c. 1560
• The infant son of the king of Isfahan responds to music, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirteenth Night c. 1560
• The princess discovers the dead bodies, with heads severed, of her husband and his Brahman friend, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night c. 1560
• The Raja’s son vows to sever his head and offer it to the image if he is united with the princess he has seen in the temple, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night c. 1560
• The merchant has the hateful skull ground and put into a box, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-third night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) c. 1560
• The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-seventh night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night c. 1560
• Mukhtar throws his wife Maimuna into the pit, but she saves herself, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night c. 1560
• A woman mistakes a cow for the Angel of Death, from a Lights of Canopus (Anwar-i Suhaili) of Kashifi (Iranian, d. 1504) c. 1610