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Various retainers accompany them on foot. An attribution to the artist Manohar is written in black ink beneath the painting. Manohar was one of the leading artists of Jahangir's reign, and there seems little doubt that the painting is by him and that the original subject was Jahangir, riding with his son Khurram, the future Shah Jahan. Their faces have been replaced by the features of Shah Jahan and his own son, Dara Shokuh, with minuscule inscriptions next to each identifying the portraitist as Murar. Murar's known work falls during the reign of Shah Jahan after his accession in 1628. \r\nThe folio which has fine calligraphy on the other side belonged to an album of Shah Jahan that was dismembered at an unknown date, and was consigned with other folios for sale at Sotheby's, London, in 1925. The lot was described as the property of \"a Nobleman\", who was said at the time to be Lord Minto.","physicalDescription":"Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, depicting Prince Khurram (later emperor Shah Jahan) riding with one of his sons and retainers. The emperor sits on a pale grey horse riding through a landscape accompanied by his son behind him, also on a horse, and various retainers on foot. The painting has been mounted on an album with floral borders, and has a pale pink border with gold scrolling decoration with the attribution to the artist Manohar in black ink at the bottom. The painting has Manohar's distinctive colour palette, and is in the style of the reign of Jahangir, of whom this must originally have been a portrait. However, the faces of Jahangir and prince have been replaced with those of Shah Jahan and, presumably, his son Dara Shokuh, as shown by minute inscriptions above the brown horse's head and beneath Dara Shokuh's left hand, both naming Murar as the portrait artist.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Manohar","id":"A1652"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Murar","id":"A20126"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"Replaced the original faces of the riders (almost certainly Jahangir and one of his sons, likely to have been Shah Jahan), with those of Shah Jahan and his son, probably Dara Shokuh."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"opaque watercolour","id":"x35013"},{"text":"gold","id":"AAT11021"},{"text":"paper","id":"AAT14109"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Royalty","id":"THES48899"},{"text":"Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project","id":"THES263148"}],"styles":[{"text":"Mughal","id":"AAT18939"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2013GB1167","2006BD6466","2017KC4282","2017KC4299"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"005","id":"THES403709"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"album page","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Mughal Empire","id":"THES262021"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1615","earliest":"1610-01-01","latest":"1619-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"ca. 1630","earliest":"1625-01-01","latest":"1634-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"faces painted"}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"IM.12A-1925","id":"O139291"},"association":"Verso"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"23.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"painting without any borders","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"16.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"painting without any borders","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"38.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"page","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"26.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"page","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"'work of Manohar'","transliteration":"'amal-e Manohar'","type":"","note":"written on inner pink frame"}],"objectHistory":"The folio was part of a group consigned to auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1925, by \"A Nobleman\" who was known at the time to be Lord Minto.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Painting of Shah Jahan with his son and a servant, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, faces of Shah Jahan and his son are replacements for the original portaits which were presumably of Jahangir and Shah Jahan as a prince. The overall painting is by Manohar, c. 1610-15, with replacement portraits signed by  Murar, and probably done in about 1630.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Hats from India / Rosemary Crill. [London]: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985 Number: 0948107308","id":"AUTH335437"},"details":"p. 9","free":"John Seyller in Sheila Canby, ed. Humayun's Garden Party. Princes of the House of Timur and Early Mughal Painting, Marg Publications, Bombay, 1994, figs 27 and 28, p. 78.\r\nSusan Stronge, Painting for the Mughal Emperor. The art of the book 1560-1660, V&A Publications, 2002, pl. 95, p. 130"},{"reference":{"text":"Stronge, S. \"The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms\", V&A, 1999","id":"AUTH327365"},"details":"Cat. 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