The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ordered away to be executed for the fifth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
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Works attributed to the artist Ghulam ‘Ali are found in only one other known manuscript.
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