Object Details
- Description
- Detached folio from a dispersed copy of Baburnama (Tuzuk-i Baburi) by Zahir-al- Din Muhammad Babur; left-hand half of a double- page composition with no facing folio; Babur entertains in Sultan Ibrahim Lodi's Palace; marginal inscription; one of a group of three folios.
- Border: the painting is set in gold, red, and black rulings in a border with landscape and bird and animal motifs, mounted within borders of a Rawdat al-Safa page.
- Inscriptions
- Inscription in margin: Farrukh Beg. 178
- Provenance
- To 1912
- Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani, London, England. [1]
- From 1912 to 1942
- Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, purchased from Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani, London, England on June 21, 1912. [2]
- From 1942 to 1986
- Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [3]
- From 1986
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [4]
- Notes:
- [1] See Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 406. See also Glen D. Lowry and Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 2: Ledger of Acquisitions, 1894 and 1907-17" in A Jeweler’s Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 232.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
- [4] See note 3.
- Collection
- Arthur M. Sackler Collection
- Exhibition History
- A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani
- Henri Vever (1854-1942)
- Francois Mautin (1907-2003)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Farrukh Beg (active early 1580s–1619)
- Date
- ca. 1585
- Period
- Mughal dynasty
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 40.9 x 27 cm (16 1/8 x 10 5/8 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
