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The merchant’s daughter encounters a wolf and bandits on her way to meet the gardener in order to keep her promise, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night

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

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The highly decorative way of painting trees did not continue into later Mughal painting traditions.

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