Bishti Medium:Museum Grade Canvas Over the years he was

Over the years he was also caught in the depths of chronic alcoholism

As was so often the case in the Mughal imperial house

Persia had a constitutional revolution and deposition of sorts in in the early 1900s

His chest is garlanded with jewels: strings of fat pearls interrupted by rubies and emeralds

The work incorporates the motif of a lion and calf living in peace under the emperor’s benign rule

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