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The merchant Mansur departs on a sea voyage, leaving his wife behind, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar

(reigned 1556–1605)
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Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 9.7 x 10.1 cm (3 13/16 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.125.b
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Thirteen fish are hidden in the dark waters beneath Mansur’s ship.

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Mansur, a wealthy and successful merchant, prepares to leave home on a long and dangerous journey. He sits dressed in orange at the head of his ship alongside a group of assistants. His wife, renowned for her virtue and beauty, sees him off from her second-story chamber.
A vertically oriented gum tempera and ink painting features blocks of dark script above an outdoor scene. On our left, a man with light skin tone in an orange tunic sits under a canopy in a patterned boat. In the center, three men with dark and medium skin tones row across dark water. On our right, a woman with light skin tone looks out from a red-curtained balcony against rolling tan hills.

The merchant Mansur departs on a sea voyage, leaving his wife behind, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

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