id: 125581 accession number: 1947.502.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.502.b updated: 2022-01-04 15:35:23.884000 Calligraphy, c. 1596. Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), Sur Das (Indian). Ink and color on paper; image: 34 x 20 cm (13 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.); overall: 38.5 x 25 cm (15 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.); with mat: 49 x 36.3 cm (19 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.502.b title: Calligraphy title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1596 creation date earliest: 1591 creation date latest: 1601 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Mughal Dynasty (1526-1756) technique: ink and color on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Calligraphy find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600) - designed by * Sur Das (Indian) - artist --- measurements: Image: 34 x 20 cm (13 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.); Overall: 38.5 x 25 cm (15 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.); with mat: 49 x 36.3 cm (19 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: recto lower left: [translated] Siege of the fort of Irbil by Urgatu Nuyan and the attainment of victory by command of Hulagu Khan.; verso overall: [text] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art and Stories from Mughal India opening date: 2016-07-31T04:00:00 Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Demotte date: footnotes: citations: (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1947 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1947- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This fortified city in the heart of Kurdistan, now called Irbil, is in Iraq. digital description: wall description: Akbar, the third Mughal emperor of India, commissioned an illustrated copy of the Chingiz-nama, a historical text written in Persian during the early 1300s by a Jewish scholar who converted to Islam. The Chingiz-nama is an account of the conquests of Akbar’s ancestors, the Mongols, who swept across the Asian continent from Siberia to the Mediterranean Sea during the 1200s. This page describes the final momentous defeat of the caliph of Baghdad, the religious head of Sunni Islam and political leader of the Abbasid dynasty, with the names of all the caliphs who came before him listed in red at the top. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 777 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n139 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.502.b/1947.502.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.502.b/1947.502.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.502.b/1947.502.b_full.tif