Garden gathering with a prince (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from the Minto Album recto

Garden gathering with a prince (recto) and Persian calligraphy (verso), folio from the Minto Album.
This scene depicts a Mughal Indian prince seated in a palace garden, in conversation with scholars, and attended by servants and musicians. On the verso is an illuminated panel of Persian poetry copied out by the sixteenth-century master-calligrapher Mir `Ali. On either side, the album borders are painted with a series of garden flowers in bright colour with gold outlines.
Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, painting inscribed to the artist Bichitr (on recto), Persian calligraphy by Mir `Ali, illuminated by Muhammad Khan Musavvir (on verso), mounted on album-page with painted borders, painting India, c. 1615-1620, calligraphy Iran or Bukhara (modern Uzbekistan), c. 1505-1545, album compiled Mughal India, c. 1620-1640