ID: 700009027 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009027	Record Type: Movable Work

Late Shah Jahan Album (album (book); various painters and calligraphers; patrons: Jahangir (r. 16...; compiled ca. 1650/1658, augmen...)

Note: The album was brought to Russia in the late 19th century and dismantled by a French dealer in Paris ca. 1909. Most of its pages are now in public collections. This spectacular album, which contained intimate nature studies, portraits of the royal family and various dignitaries, and fine examples of illuminated folios of calligraphy by renowned calligraphers, offers a glimpse into the courtly life and diverse interests of its patrons. The album was initiated by the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–1627), and passed onto his son Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658), who added several paintings, illuminations, and calligraphy folios. It eventually came into the possession of Shah Jahan’s son Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707). Little is believed to have been added by this final imperial patron, but the presence of his seal on one folio confirms that he was once the owner. Finally, around 1820, eleven more folios were added and the album was rebound. The added pages were completed in a style imitative of the seventeenth-century Mughal paintings and are characterized by a degree of stiffness and flatness of form.

Titles:

Late Shah Jahan Album (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Shah Jahan Album (C,U,English,U,U)

Emperor‘s Album (C,U,English,U,U)

Kevorkian Album (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

album (book) [300026690] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>, books, <books by internal form>)

disassembled work [300404028]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by state>)

Classifications:

albums (preferred)

Creation Date: compiled ca. 1650/1658, augmented into the 19th century

Creator Display:

various painters and calligraphers; patrons: Jahangir (r. 1605-1627), Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658), Aurangzeb (1618-1707) [preferred]

artists various artists (various cultural designations, architects, or other people) [500204623]

patron Aurangzeb, Emperor of Hindustan (Mughal emperor, 1618-1707) [500356884]

patron Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan (Mughal emperor, 1569-1627) [500257015]

patron Shahjahan, Emperor of India (Mughal emperor, ca. 1592-1666) [500245103]

Locations:

Other: Destroyed: undetermined [7544559] World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: folios: Ink, colors, and gold on paper

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	color (pigment) [300264870]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)

	gilding (material) [300379350]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: folios: around 39 x 26 cm

Events:

disassembling: ca. 1909

Cultures:

Islamic (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Mughal [300018939] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Islamic World| The, Islamic (culture or style), Islamic Indian)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

portraits

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Late Shah Jahan Album	........ [VP]
	........ Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian [online] (2003-)
Shah Jahan Album	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
Emperor‘s Album	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
Kevorkian Album	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
	..... Freer Gallery and Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian [online] (2003-)