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Suraj Gujarati

Workmen in a Garden

Description

Maker

Suraj Gujarati
Basawan, designer

Title

Workmen in a Garden
Page from a manuscript of the Baburnama

Period

Mughal

Year

around 1590

Medium

  • ink,
  • watercolor,
  • and gold on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • ink,
  • watercolor,
  • and gold on paper

Materials

watercolor, gold, ink

Supports

  • paper

Geography

Place Made: India

Dimensions

Sheet: 26.7 x 15.9 cm (10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

17.463

Type

  • Paintings

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Books

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

  • Journal

Glimpses of Grandeur: Courtly Arts of the Later Islamic Empires

  • Books

Selected Works

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Glimpses of Grandeur
Courtly Arts of the Later Islamic Empires
Sep 24, 1999 – Dec 26, 1999
Indian Art for the RISD Collection
Aug 23, 1985 – Mar 09, 1986

Label copy

Babur, the founder in 1526 of the Mughal dynasty in India, wrote extensive memoirs in his mother tongue of Turki. These writings were translated into Persian as the Baburnama during the reign of his grandson Akbar, and at least four illustrated veresions were subsequently prepared for him. This page, highlighting the Mughals' great love of nature, is from the earliest of these manuscripts. In such works it was the common practice for a master painter to design the miniature before turning it over to be painted by a more junior artist.

Islamic Art
A Survey
Oct 07, 1982 – Apr 24, 1983

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Suraj Gujarati
Basawan, designer
Workmen in a Garden; Page from a manuscript of the Baburnama, around 1590
Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper
Sheet: 26.7 x 15.9 cm (10 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches)
Museum Appropriation Fund 17.463

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