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The Emperors' Album: Images of Mughal India
The Emperors' Album Images of Mughal India Author:Stuart Cary Welch, Annemarie Schimmel, Marie L. Swietochowski, Wheeler M. Thackson Here the fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's great assemblages of Mughal art and calligraphy, are presented together for the fist time. Thirty-nine leaves date from the seventeenth century; the other eleven leaves were created in the early nineteenth century and were bound together with the earlier ones, ... more »probably by an Indian art dealer. The resulting album took its name from Hagop Kevorkian, a noted benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other cultural institutions.« less