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Collection Online as of April 5, 2020

Moses praying to end the serpents’ attack on the Israelites, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

1602-04

Part of a set. See all set records

Mughal India, Allahabad, made for Prince Salim

(1569–1627)

Opaque watercolor, ink, color and gold on paper

Page: 26.3 x 15.6 cm (10 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.); Painting only: 18.9 x 10.5 cm (7 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 2005.145.63.b

Location

115 Manuscripts & Textiles

Provenance
Before 1930s-2005
An Indian family in Great Britain, whose grandfather brought the manuscript to England in the 1930s or 1940s through 2005
2005
(Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, UK, 2005, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
2005-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2005-present
Source URL: https://cmaweb23-bbn-2.clevelandart.org/art/2005.145.63.b