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The street cleaner, on his way to meet King Bhojaraja, sleeps under a tree where four thieves disguised as fellow travelers deprive him of a priceless pearl, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth 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: 10.5 x 10.4 cm (4 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.97.a
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Location
242B Indian Painting
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The body of the thief has been overpainted and repositioned.

Description

Many scholars consider the diminutive Tuti-nama to have been one of the first illustrated manuscripts made for Akbar, on which Indian artists worked with Persian masters to formulate a new style that their exacting emperor appreciated. The new Mughal style would be used to create the monumental Hamza-nama and hundreds of other Mughal manuscripts. There are many continuities between the Tuti-nama and the Hamza-nama, such as the image of a recumbent figure under a magnificent tree.
Vertically oriented book page with Persian script in the lower third and an image in the upper two thirds depicting a man sleeping under a tree as three men kneel over him to our left and a fourth our right, stealing something from the man's side. All the men have light skin tones. Wearing blue, the sleeping man leans his face against his right hand, a tree trunk composed of intertwining tendrils rising behind his head, white, long-necked birds sitting in its leaves.

The street cleaner, on his way to meet King Bhojaraja, sleeps under a tree where four thieves disguised as fellow travelers deprive him of a priceless pearl, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night

c. 1560

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

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