Publication Date
Approximately 1008 - 13 AH / 1600 - 04 AD
Publication Place
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Chester Beatty Library
Subject
Colored pigments and gold on paper
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
33.5 ×20.9 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
CBL In 50.1
Record ID
object;EPM;ir;Mus21;47;ar
Library Location
Chester Beatty Library
Date
Approximately 1008 - 13 AH / 1600 - 04 AD
Notes
This painting was part of the Shikarnama, an album of hunting photographs that was probably collected for the Mughal Emperor Janjir while he was still a prince (and thus still known by his birth name, Selim). It shows the prince having just killed a lioness, with the fur of a rhinoceros nearby. In the background there are many killed antelopes, and around them are a group of shikaris (hunting companions), some of whom have an antelope on their shoulder, one of them carrying the prince’s sword (wrapped in a cloth sash), and one of them carrying a quiver full of arrows, but almost every one of them is looking or gesticulating at the leopard on the other side of the stream, which has also hunted another antelope.
Sample Text
“Salim killing a rhinoceros and a lion” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;ir;Mus21;47;ar
