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The wolf and the jackal, serving as viziers, instigate the lion who pursues the Brahman up a tree, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-first 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: 10.8 x 10.4 cm (4 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.152.a
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The artist has depicted the gazelle and deer as a blackbuck and cow.

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The Brahman perches precariously at the top of a tree as the hungry lion waits below surrounded by wolves and jackals. Previously, the lion’s other viziers, the deer and the gazelle, had counseled the lion to treat the Brahman with kindness. They appear again to save the Brahman life.
A book page features black script in the upper third and a painting below set within a rolling pink landscape. A boy in a pink tunic perches among the dense green leaves of a tree. Below, a tan lion gazes upward with bared teeth beside three running brown jackals. To our left, a palm tree towers over two goats, while a slender cypress rises from craggy rocks and red flowers on our right.

The wolf and the jackal, serving as viziers, instigate the lion who pursues the Brahman up a tree, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-first Night

c. 1560

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

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