Unknown Maker, Indian

When collectors mounted miniature paintings in albums, they often paired them with poems. The pages presented here each have an image on one side and a Turkish or Persian poem on the other. The generic nature of these images and texts suggests they were easily mixed and matched in an album format. For instance, the image at right of a praying woman is easily complemented by the poem at left, which emphasizes the importance of being good. [see also 17.469B]