id: 137458 accession number: 1962.279.146.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.146.a updated: 2023-01-11 01:12:09.621000 The suitors take the devotee’s daughter out of her tomb after breaking it open, when the physician discovers she is still alive, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night, c. 1560. Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); painting only: 12.6 x 10.7 cm (4 15/16 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.146.a title: The suitors take the devotee’s daughter out of her tomb after breaking it open, when the physician discovers she is still alive, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1560 creation date earliest: 1555 creation date latest: 1565 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry copyright: --- culture: Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605) technique: gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 12.6 x 10.7 cm (4 15/16 x 4 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Indian Miniature Rotation (Gallery 115); August 13, 2003 - February 18, 2004.
Indian Minature Rotation (Gallery 115); August 18, 2004 - --- PROVENANCE Estate of Breckenridge Long, Bowie, MD, 1959; Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA; Bernard Brown, Milwaukee, WI; date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The three pairs of birds in the tree and pond allude to the three suitors. digital description: The three suitors hold the lifeless body of the woman they intended to marry. She is wrapped in a diaphanous burial shroud, and her tomb stands empty in the background. When the suitors realize that the woman is not dead, they proceed to attempt to revive her. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Chandra, Pramod, and Daniel J. Ehnbom. The Cleveland Tuti-Nama Manuscript and the Origins of Mughal Painting. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976. page number: p. 79 url: Seyller, John. “Overpainting in the Cleveland T̤ūtīnāma.” Artibus Asiae 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318. page number: p. 315 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249892 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.146.a/1962.279.146.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.146.a/1962.279.146.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.146.a/1962.279.146.a_full.tif