This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.
Summary
Malik Amber of Ahmadnager(c.1605-27)
( )
Artist
Hashim (made)
Title
Malik Amber of Ahmadnager(c.1605-27)
Description
Malik Ambar was born in Ethopia in 1548 with the name Chapu and was sold into slavery. He was eventually bought by a leading member of the Nizam Shahi court of Ahmadnagar, one of the fragile sultanates of the Deccan. The slave became a soldier, and eventually a commander of the Nizam Shahi army, leading it against the Mughal army of the emperor Akbar. By 1600 he had become Regent of the Kingdom, effectively ruling Ahmadnagar until his death in 1626. His army scored significant victories against the Mughals during the reign of Jahangir. The Mughal army was led by Jahangir's son, Shah Jahan, who rebelled against his father in 1624 and sought support from his former enemy. It is likely that Hashim was sent with Shah Jahan's envoy and painted this naturalistic portrait after seeing the subject at first hand.
Date
circa 1624
date QS:P571,+1624-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-5 (made)
Medium
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height: 38.6 cm page, Width: 26.5 cm page, Height: 19.5 cm to edges of green ground, Width: 11.7 cm to edges of green ground
Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum
Native name
Victoria and Albert Museum
Location
London
Coordinates
51° 29′ 27″ N, 0° 07′ 38″ W
Established
1852
Website
www.vam.ac.uk
Authority file
: Q213322
VIAF: 128776887
ISNI: 0000000123230472
ULAN: 500302040
LCCN: n79066252
OSM: 29795
WorldCat
institution QS:P195,Q213322
Accession number
IM.21-1925
Object history
The folio is from a group of paintings acquired at auction in 1925 where they were sold as "The Minto Album" and subsequently divided between the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin and the V&A.
Inscriptions
Likeness of [Malik] 'Anbar the work of Hashim
References
Susan Stronge, Painting for the Mughal Emperor. The art of the book 1560-1650, V&A Publications, 2002, pl. 123, p. 160 Richard M. Eaton, A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761. Eight Indian Lives, The New Cambridge History of India, I.8, Cambridge University Press, 2005,Chapter 5, 'Malik Ambar (1548-1626): the rise and fall of military slavery, pp. 105-128
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time
Thumbnail
Dimensions
User
Comment
current
05:37, 18 December 2011
1,273 × 1,902 (1.31 MB)
Sridhar1000
large
11:37, 17 December 2011
450 × 662 (50 KB)
Sridhar1000
Reverted to version as of 05:49, 5 October 2011
11:29, 17 December 2011
1,667 × 2,500 (656 KB)
Sridhar1000
large
05:49, 5 October 2011
450 × 662 (50 KB)
Sridhar1000
File usage
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):