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| Keywords: Princes of the House of Timur.jpg Princes of the House of Timur Mughal miniature painting attributed to Abd as-Samad ca 1550-1555 http //www artfund org/artwork/4691/princes-of-the-house-of-timur Art Fund page This is the earliest known example of a Mughal painting which has been described by J M Rogers as 'a variety of Islamic painting practised in India principally in the 16th and 17th centuries' The painting is in colours and gold on fine cotton fabric What has survived of the picture depicts a ruler seated in a garden pavilion and wearing Central Asian dress He is flanked by two servants and faces a visitor To either side of him are courtiers and nobles and in the background servants The missing foreground probably depicted dancers and musicians performing a courtly entertainment The central figure is believed to be Humayun 1508-56 the second Mughal Emperor; many of the heads were repainted to depict later Mughal rulers creating a genealogical scene gouache and gold on cotton British Museum London 16th-century Mughal miniatures Persian miniatures Art of India in the British Museum Women of the Mughal Empire Paintings of Jahangir Abdul-Samad PD-old Images from Artfund org 1550s paintings from India | ||||
