id: 137621 accession number: 1962.279.222.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.222.b updated: 2022-01-04 16:10:25.801000 The two couples reach a foreign city where they make their home, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third 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: 11.5 x 10.1 cm (4 1/2 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.222.b title: The two couples reach a foreign city where they make their home, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third 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: 11.5 x 10.1 cm (4 1/2 x 4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Estate of Breckenridge Long, Bowie, MD, 1959; Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA; Bernard Brown, Milwaukee, WI; date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The residents of the foreign city have much whiter skin than that of the protagonists. digital description: Two pairs of lovers cross the bridge that leads to the gates of a new city. They have fled here together to live out the rest of their lives peacefully away from the machinations that would have otherwise kept them apart. Above the intricately patterned city walls, three men witness the group’s arrival. 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: pp. 79, 135 url: Seyller, John. “Overpainting in the Cleveland T̤ūtīnāma.” Artibus Asiae 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318. page number: p. 318 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249892 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.222.b/1962.279.222.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.222.b/1962.279.222.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.222.b/1962.279.222.b_full.tif