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They are identified in the Persian inscription in the border beneath, which states that these are the likenesses of Shah Shuja' Bahadur, Aurangzeb Bahadur and Murad Bakhsh, and that it is the work of the artist Balchand. The artist's own faint signature is discernible on the white tree trunk behind the princes. The painting has the floral borders characteristic of the albums of Shah Jahan which contained folios with paintings on one side and specimens of fine calligraphy on the other. An 18th century copy of the painting is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Ms.Douce.Or.a.1 folio 24b).\r\nThe folio is from a group of paintings acquired at auction in 1925 where they were sold as \"The Minto Album\" and subsequently divided between the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin and the V&A.","physicalDescription":"Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, depicting the three younger sons of Shah Jahan, Shah' Shuja, Aurangzeb and Murad Bakhsh; they are shown riding horses in a landscape and are identified in the inscription in black ink beneath them, on the narrow frame. 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The art of the book in India 1560-1650, V&A Publications, 2002, pl. 17, p. 155\r\nEllen Smart, 'The Death of Inayat Khan by the Mughal artist Balchand', in Artibus Asiae, LVIII, 3/4, p. 275"},{"reference":{"text":"Swallow, D., Stronge, S., Crill, R., Koezuka, T., editor and translator, \"The Art of the Indian Courts. Miniature Painting and Decorative Arts\", Victoria & Albert Museum and NHK Kinki Media Plan, 1993.","id":"AUTH346698"},"details":"p. 81, cat. no. 63","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Irwin, John C., Indian Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: H. M. 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