Shah Jahan Muraqqa Lithographs from India using opaque water color and

using opaque water color and gold is actually a page from an imperial album assembled for Shah Jahan toward the end of his reign

he writes: "There was room in the expanse of my exalted father's peerless realm for practitioners of various sects and religions

where he was a corrupt and brutal Company official

due no doubt to the proximity of the lion’s visible teeth

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Shah Jahan Muraqqa Lithographs from India using opaque water color andThis Shah Jahan portrait is from the Shah Jahan Album or the Emperors album. Western provenance also describes this as the Kevorkian Album, after an Armenian American private collector. The album features fifty illustrated and calligraphy folios, forty one of which are in custody of the Metropolitan Museum, and nine reside in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art. This spectacular album, contains intimate nature studies, portraits of the royal