Ustad Mansur
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Ustad Mansur was a seventeenth-century Indian painter and naturalist who served as a Mughal court artist. During this period, he excelled at depicting plants and animals, was the earliest artist to de
Tulip from Kashmir (c. 1610) by Mansur Naqqash
A painting depicting the dodo ascribed to Ustad Mansur dated to the period 1628–1633. This is one of the few coloured images of the dodo made from a living specimen.
Dipper (c. 1620) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Siberian crane (c. 1625)
Tuzk-e-Jahangiri
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The Tuzk-e-Jahangiri or Jahangirnama is the autobiography of Mughal Emperor Jahangir. The Tuzk-e-Jahangiri is written in Persian, and follows the tradition of his great-grandfather, Babur, who had wri
Abul Hasan and Manohar, with Jahangir in the Darbar, from the Jahangir-nama, c. 1620. Gouache on paper.
Jahangir holding a globe, 1614–1618.