Imperial Mughal painting

124 Pages·1978·20.087 MB·English

by  Stuart Cary Welch

MUGHAL
IMPERIAL
PAINTING
WELCH
STUART CARY

MUGHAL
IMPERIAL PAINTING

IMPERIAL
MUGHAL
PAINTING
STUART CARY WELCH
George New\brk
Braziller
CHARLESTON BRANCH LIBRARY
Published in 1978.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Welch, Stuart Cary.
Imperial Mughal painting.
Bibliography: p.
1. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul.
2. Miniature painting, Mogul. L Title.
ND3247.W44 745.6'7'0954 77-4049
ISBN 0-8076-0870-X
ISBN 0-8076-0871-8 pbk.
First Edition
Printed by Imprimeries Reunies in Switzerland
Designed by Diane Kosowski
Contents
Acknowledgments 6
Foreword 9
Introduction 11
Selected Bibliography 31
List of Color Plates & Black-and-White Figures 33
Plates and Commentaries 40
Acknowledgments
This book would be less interesting and useful without the help of many
friends and colleagues. For historical and literary information I am espe-
cially grateful to Annemarie Schimmel, Martin B. Dickson, and Wheeler
Thackston, who also translated numerous passages of Persian and identified
several baffling subjects of pictures. Brian Silver most generously and insight-
fully translated the Urdu Ghazals of Bahadur Shan II quoted in the Com-
mentary to Plate 40. As usual, I am beholden to Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Archer,
Richard Ettinghausen, Ralph Pinder-Wilson, Norah Titley, Robert Skelton,
and Pramod Chandra, for information both published and by word of
mouth. Esin Atil, Milo Beach, Toby Falk, Fllen Smart, Mark Zebrowski,
Sheila Canby, and Joyce Paulsen have also been most kind in offering help,
as have Marie Swietochowski and Daniel Walker. I am especially grateful to
Seymour Slive of the Fogg Art Museum; Joan Lancaster of the India Office
Library; John Irwin and Helen Angus of the Victoria and Albert Museum;
Dr. G. Marrison, Ernest Anderson and K.J. Ames of the British Library; Ann
Walsh, A.C. Butler, and J.G. Burton-Page of the School of Oriental and
African Studies at the University of London; Dr. Manfred Kramer of
Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt; R.A. May and Rosemary McKendrick
of The Bodleian Library; P. Henchy of The Chester Beatty Library; Marie
Lawrence of The India Office Library and Records; Fredd Gordon of The
Metropolitan Museum of Art; Carl Nodi of the Osterreichisches Museum
fur angewandte Kunst; Judy Roland and Betty L. Zimmerman of The
J.
Cincinnati Art Museum; Jan Fontein of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
as well as the late Harold P. Stern and Thomas Lawton of the FreerGallery
of Art for permission to reproduce masterpieces from their collections.
I would also like to add a special word of thanks to the staff at George Bra-
ziller, in particular, Adele Westbrook and Priscilla Truman, for their enthu-
siasm and combined efforts on behalf of this book.
The authoi and publishers would like to express thcii sincere thanks to tfi<
following institutions and individuals who kindly provided materials and
granted permission to reproduce them in tins volume.
Color Plates
Boston, Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
and Picture Fund, Plates 16, 17, 20; Purchased, Arthur Mason Knapp
Fund, Plate 39.
Cambridge, Fogg Museum of Art, Plates 24, 26, 29, 33, 34, 35, 37, 40 (Photo,
Michael A. Nedzweski).
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Gift of John J. Emery, Plate 15.
Dublin, Courtesy of The Chester Beatty Library and Gallery of Oriental Art,
Plates 28, 36, 38 (Photo, Pieterse Davison International Ltd., Dublin).
London, The British Library, Reproduced by permission of The British
Library Board, Plates 11, 18.
London, The British Museum, Plates 5, 6, 19 (Photo, A.C. Cooper Ltd.,
London).
London, India Office Library and Records, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, Plate 25.
London, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London),
Plate 4.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Plates 7, 12, 13, 14, 27 (Photo, A.C.
Cooper Ltd., London).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Edward C. Moore,
Jr., 1928, Plate 10; Purchase, 1955, The Kevorkian Foundation supple-
menting The Rogers Fund, Plate 30.
Oxford, Courtesy of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Plates 8,
23.
Vienna, Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Plates 1, 2, 3
(Photo, Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt from their Hamza-Nama
facsimile edition).
Washington, Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., Plates 9, 21, 22, 31, 32.
Black-and-White Figures
Boston, Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
and Picture Fund, Figure V.
Cambridge, Fogg Museum of Art, Figures III, IV.
London, The British Museum, Figure I.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Figure II.