<em> Babur Entertains in Sultan Ibrahim Lodi's Palace </em> from a <em>Baburnama</em>
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1585
label: Period
content: Mughal dynasty
name: label: Artist
content: Farrukh Beg (active early 1580s–1619)
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Inscriptions
content: Inscription in margin: Farrukh Beg. 178
label: Provenance
content: To 1912
label: Provenance
content: Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani, London, England. [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1912 to 1942
label: Provenance
content: Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, purchased from Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani, London, England on June 21, 1912. [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1942 to 1986
label: Provenance
content: Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1986
label: Provenance
content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [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.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
label: Provenance
content: [4] See note 3.
label: Collection
content: Arthur M. Sackler Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Hafez Mahmud Khan Shairani
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Henri Vever (1854-1942)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: François Mautin (1907-2003)
place: label: Origin
content: Lahore, Pakistan
topic: label: Topic
content: Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)
label: Topic
content: Baburnama
label: Topic
content: palace
label: Topic
content: Pakistan
label: Topic
content: emperor
label: Topic
content: sultan
label: Topic
content: South Asian and Himalayan Art
label: Topic
content: Henri Vever collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: S1986.232
objectType: label: Type
content: Manuscript
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 40.9 x 27 cm (16 1/8 x 10 5/8 in)