"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album recto: ca. 1610–15; verso ca. 1540 Painting by Abu'l Hasan Indian Jahangir (r. 1605–27) ordered this portrait of a spotted forktail from Abu'l Hasan, the artist upon whom he bestowed the honorific title "Wonder of the Age." The inscription states that the emperor’s servants hunted this particular bird but does not say whether they killed it or merely captured it before it was portrayed. The silk ground adds a particular luster to the painting, further enhanced by the bird’s shiny eye, which contains glittering chips of a reflective material,
"Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album recto: ca. 1610–15; verso ca. 1540 Painting by Abu'l Hasan Indian Jahangir (r. 1605–27) ordered this portrait of a spotted forktail from Abu'l Hasan, the artist upon whom he bestowed the honorific title "Wonder of the Age." The inscription states that the emperor’s servants hunted this particular bird but does not say whether they killed it or merely captured it before it was portrayed. The silk ground adds a particular luster to the painting, further enhanced by the bird’s shiny eye, which contains glittering chips of a reflective material, probably "Spotted Forktail", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album 454623
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