TIMUR'S ARMY TAKES THE FORTRESS OF DAHNA BY SARWAN, MUGHAL...
TIMUR'S ARMY TAKES THE FORTRESS OF DAHNA
BY SARWAN, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1595-1600
Folio 154 from the Royal Mughal Zafarnama of Yazdi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, two lines of black nasta'liq above and below, gold and polychrome rules, plain paper margins, ascribed to the artist and illustration numbered '34' in red nasta'liq in the lower margin, the reverse with 16ll. black nasta'liq
Painting 5 ½ x 3 ¾in. (14 x 9.5cm.); text panel 7 5⁄8 x 4 1/8in. (19.5 x 10.4cm.); folio 11 x 7 7/8in. (28 x 20cm.)
Provenance
Family Collection, by descent to the current owner, almost certainly from before 1900
In the UK since the 1970s
TIMUR'S ARMY TAKES THE FORTRESS OF DAHNA
BY SARWAN, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1595-1600
Folio 154 from the Royal Mughal Zafarnama of Yazdi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, two lines of black nasta'liq above and below, gold and polychrome rules, plain paper margins, ascribed to the artist and illustration numbered '34' in red nasta'liq in the lower margin, the reverse with 16ll. black nasta'liq
Painting 5 ½ x 3 ¾in. (14 x 9.5cm.); text panel 7 5⁄8 x 4 1/8in. (19.5 x 10.4cm.); folio 11 x 7 7/8in. (28 x 20cm.)
Provenance
Family Collection, by descent to the current owner, almost certainly from before 1900
In the UK since the 1970s
