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Hunter shooting a leopard
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Description
The Anwar-i Suhaili is a Persian version of the Panchatantra, an ancient Indian collection of animal fables. A hunter has shot a leopard, which had just killed a dog, which itself had just slain a fox. This chain of carnage is observed by a pink lynx on the right, who reflects that “The actions of each, since they were based on injury to others, proved, by way of retaliation, injurious to himself.” The moral is, do no evil to others.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north India (place of creation)
- Date
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1570 - 1575
Mughal Period (1526 - 1858)
- Associated people
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the Honorable Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay, British Resident at Poona (1779 - 1859) (owner)
- Material and technique
- gouache with gold on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 21.5 x 25.6 cm (height x width)
painting 13.5 x 18 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.81
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 5 on p. 32, illus. p. 33
Past Exhibition
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Location
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- Returned to lender
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