Title: "The Eavesdropper", Folio 47r from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Object type: Folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date: ca. 1430
Artist:  Maulana Azhar 
Artist bio: died 1475/76
Artist role: Calligrapher
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
Dimensions: Painting: H. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm)
                W. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
Page: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm)
          W. 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm)
Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm)
        W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
Classification: Codices
Credit line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
Geography: Made in Herat   present-day Afghanistan      
Department: Islamic Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Musical Instruments, term: Men, term: Women, term: Swimming, term: Musicians