Indian sculpture and painting, illustrated by typical masterpieces, with an explanation of their motives and ideals (1908)
Havell, E. B. (Ernest Binfield), 1861-1934 · London, J. Murray · leaf 387
back several rarities he had pur-chased for the Emperor. Among them, says Jahangir, were a fewanimals which excited my curiosity and whichI had never seen before. No one evenknew their names. The Emperor Babar hasin his memoirs given an able description andpictured representation of several… … A TURKEY-COCK 215 rarity, I wrote a description of them and orderedthat their pictures should be drawn in the Ja-hangiri-nama with the view that their actual like-nesses might afford a greater surprise to the readerthan the mere description of them. One of the birds resembled a peahen, but wasa…
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