id: 137919 accession number: 1962.279.56.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.56.b updated: 2023-08-23 21:39:46.635000 The prince being taken away for execution on the false complaint of the handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night, c. 1560. Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; painting only: 5.7 x 10.1 cm (2 1/4 x 4 in.); overall: 20 x 13.9 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.56.b title: The prince being taken away for execution on the false complaint of the handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth 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: Painting only: 5.7 x 10.1 cm (2 1/4 x 4 in.); Overall: 20 x 13.9 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Estate of Breckinridge Long [1881–1958], Bowie, MD date: ?–1959 footnotes: *
Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long (May 16, 1881–September 26, 1958) was an American diplomat and politician, who served in the administrations of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Long is largely remembered for his obstructionist role as the Assistant Secretary of State responsible for granting refugee visas during World War II. 
His interests included the collection of antiques, paintings and American ship models. He maintained a stable of Thoroughbred race horses and was a director of the Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland, and he enjoyed fox hunting, fishing, and sailing.
citations: (Harry Burke Antiques, Philadelphia, PA) date: 1959–1962? footnotes: citations: (Bernard Brown Agency, Milwaukee, WI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry) date: 1959?–1962 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The prince’s execution is prevented by the king’s viziers, who recount a series of moralizing stories. digital description: Embarrassed and angry that the prince rejected her advances, and worried that he will tell the king of her misconduct, the handmaiden preempts him by falsely accuses the prince of assaulting her. Since he has taken a vow of silence, he does not defend himself, so the king orders the prince to be beheaded. 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, 99 url: Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn, and Muhammed Ahmed Simsar. Tales of a Parrot = The Cleveland Museum of Art's Ṭūṭīnāma. Cleveland: The Museum, 1978. page number: pp. 55-68 url: Seyller, John. “Overpainting in the Cleveland T̤ūtīnāma.” Artibus Asiae 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318. page number: p. 311 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3249892 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.56.b/1962.279.56.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.56.b/1962.279.56.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.279.56.b/1962.279.56.b_full.tif