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Fratricide Witnesses the Loyalty of Two Friends
Amir Khusrow1597-1598 (Mughal)
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
This illustration from Walters manuscript W.624 depicts the 10th maqala (discourse). Two men who are about to be executed are found in the lower foreground. Several men plea to the king for clemency.
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- Title: Fratricide Witnesses the Loyalty of Two Friends
- Creator Lifespan: 1253/1340
- Date Created: 1597-1598 (Mughal)
- Physical Dimensions: w19 x h28.5 cm
- Type: illuminated manuscripts; folios (leaves)
- Rights: Acquired by Henry Walters, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: ink and pigments on laid paper
- Provenance: Muhammad Zaki, 1241 AH/AD 1825-1826 [mode of acquisition unknown] [oval seal, fols. 1a, 211a]; 'abd al-raji Muhammad Shafi', 1247 AH/AD 1831-1832 [mode of acquisition unknown] [rectangular seal fols. 1a, 211a]; Muhammad 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [large oval seal with no date on fol. 211a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Place of Origin: Lahore, Pakistan (?)
- ExhibitionHistory: Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Emperor Akbar's Illustrated "Khamsa," 1597-1598. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2005-2006
- Author: Amir Khusraw Dihlavi
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