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The merchant Mansur departs on a sea voyage, leaving his wife behind, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night

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

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Thirteen fish are hidden in the dark waters beneath Mansur’s ship.

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