Muraqqa
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A Muraqqa is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and specimens of Islamic calligraphy, normally from several different sources, and perhaps other matter. The album was popular
Youth kneeling and holding out a wine-cup. Safavid period, early 17th century. Isfahan School. Ink and color wash on paper. Freer Sackler Gallery F1928.10.
Some verses in Persian written in the Nasta'liq script, probably always a single page meant for a muraqqa; 16–17th century.
A Young Lady Reclining After a Bath, Herat 1590s, a single miniature for the muraqqa market
15th century portrait of Mehmet II (1432-1481), showing Italian influence
Company style
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Company style, also known as Company painting, is a hybrid Indo-European style of paintings made in British India by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons in the East India Company
Group of Courtesans, Sikh Empire 1800–1825, 26 cm × 31.2 cm (10.2 in × 12.3 in) opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Khan Bahadur Khan with Men of his Clan, c. 1815, from the Fraser Album
Great Indian Fruit Bat (Pteropus giganteus), Bhawani Das or follower, 1777–82, from Mary Impey's album of natural history paintings
A Green-Winged Macaw, folio from Mary Impey's album of natural history paintings, Attributed by inscription to Shaikh Zain al-Din, Calcutta, about 1780