Amir Khan Shah's punishment, Isfahan, Iran, workshop of Mu'in Mosavver, ca. 1680

Amir Khan Shah's Punishment, Isfahan, Iran, workshop of Mu'in Mosavver, ca. 1680
Isfahan, Iran, workshop of Mu'in Mosavver, ca. 1680
Ink, gouache and gold on paper pasted on cartoline.
Size : 29,7 x 20 cm sheet, 24 x 14,9 cm in the net
Amir Khan Shah's sentence, Isfahan, Iran, circle of Mu'in Musawwir, circa 1680
Under the gaze of Shah Ismail I on horseback, positioned on the right of the miniature, his rival Amir Khan Shah undergoes the punishment of imprisonment in a well.
Page from a version of the History of the Ornament of the World Shah Ismail or Tarikh-e alam-ara-ye Shah Esmail; an anonymous work that allegorically traces the life of the first Safavid king.
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Our painting is related to a manuscript in the British Library Or. 3248, painted by Mu'in Mosavver around 1650, as well as the one kept in the Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran (Ms.77.1.17).