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The bag of gold which he received for the slave girl being stolen in a mosque, the young man of Baghdad tears his cloths and is about to fling himself into the Tigris, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night

c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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Gigantic fish and a crocodile lurk in the swirling waters of the Tigris.

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