Two Camels Fighting late 16th–early 17th century The depiction of two camels fighting has a long history in Iranian art, stretching back to pre-Islamic times, and was popular in Persian and Mughal painting from the late fifteenth century onward. In this drawing, a man in a cap with a large feather tries to separate one camel from the other. Both camels are draped with ornate saddle blankets, one of which is decorated with two simurghs, phoenix-like birds, in clouds and the other with an elephant and its keeper and a falconer in a landscape. The tiny heads of two men are visible in the rocks as
Two Camels Fighting late 16th–early 17th century The depiction of two camels fighting has a long history in Iranian art, stretching back to pre-Islamic times, and was popular in Persian and Mughal painting from the late fifteenth century onward. In this drawing, a man in a cap with a large feather tries to separate one camel from the other. Both camels are draped with ornate saddle blankets, one of which is decorated with two simurghs, phoenix-like birds, in clouds and the other with an elephant and its keeper and a falconer in a landscape. The tiny heads of two men are visible in the rocks as if they have just happened upon this Two Camels Fighting 450602
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