Queen with her Horse and Falcon

Queen with her Horse and Falcon

Queen with her Horse and Falcon

Date: early 1700s
Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions:
Other (sight): 8 1/4 × 5 in. (21 × 12.7 cm)
Other (mat): 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. David Nalin
Object number: 2006.14.6
DescriptionThis subject was popular and often reproduced. The princess rides along a waterway with an egret in it, past distant rocky outcropping with two distant towns. Three ducks fly up before her. There is an inscription within a cartouche in Urdu, stating "Nur Jehan, Wife of Emperor Jenangir."
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