The Emperor Shah Jahan Standing on a Globe

Object Details

• Artist

  Inscribed (later) to Hashim

• Court

  Mughal Court

• School/Tradition

  Mughal school

• Description

  Detached album folio; recto: Emperor Shah Jahan standing on a globe; inscriptions in Persian black nasta'liq script; verso: calligraphy panel, quatrain by Hafiz; Persian in black nasta'liq script; signature in the bottom cloud band; one of a group of 16 folios.

  Border: The painting is set in a pink, floral scroll inner frame and a gold outer frame mounted on paperboard with illuminated floral motifs. The calligraphy panel is set in an inner frame of cartouches with calligraphy and a pink floral scroll outer frame mounted on paperboard with illuminated floral motifs.

• Signatures

  Verso: Fighir Mir Ali

  Verso: Fighir Mir Ali

• Inscriptions

  Amal Hashim. Tarikh dovom Jamadi al-thani ruz doshanbeh seneh 38 shabih tayar shoud.

  "Work of Hashim. On the second of Jumada II, day Monday, year 1038, the portrait was executed."

  Elahi to in shah darvish dost

  ke asayesh khalgh dar zel-i oost

  basi bar sar-i khalgh payandeh dar

  betofigh ta'at delash zehdeh dar

  "Oh God, keep this king, the friend of the dervishes

  under whose shadow people's peaceful existance is maintained

  keep him for a long time [established over the people]

  keep his heart alive by the succor of obedience."

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of the Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas (October 16, 2004 to January 3, 2016)

  South and South East Asian Art (May 9, 1993 to February 7, 2000)

  Nastaliq Calligraphy (September 23, 1982 to January 20, 1984)

  The Imperial Image: Painting for the Mughal Court (September 25, 1981 to 30 March 1982)

  Indian Art (January 1, 1963 to January 28, 1981)

  Untitled Exhibition, Mughal Painting, 1947 (April 23 to September 30, 1947)

  Untitled Exhibition, Mughal Painting (December 20, 1944 to April 23, 1947)

  Untitled Exhibition, South Asian Paintings, Gallery 4 (May 5, 1933 to January 9, 1945)

• Origin

  India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1610s

• Name

  Hashim

• Place

  India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Reign of Shah Jahan (1628 - 1658), Art, Globe, Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858), Illumination, Angels, Kings and rulers, Halo

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Paintings