RM2B01EWJ–India: Emperor Akbar (25 October 1542 - 27 October 1605) controlling an elephant in musth during a hunt. Leaf, c. early 17th century. Akbar (r. 1556-1605), also known as Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam or Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal Emperor. He was of Timurid descent; the son of Emperor Humayun, and the grandson of Emperor Babur, the ruler who founded the Mughal dynasty in India. At the end of his reign in 1605 the Mughal empire covered most of the northern and central India. Akbar was thirteen years old when he ascended the Mughal throne in Delhi (February 1556).
RM2B01RYD–Iran/Persia: A hunting scene. Frontispiece from a divan of Hafez Shirazi (c. 1325-1390), 16th century. Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hāfez, was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry (Divan) are to be found in the homes of most Persian speakers in Iran and Afghanistan, as well as elsewhere in the world, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation.
RM2B01RYA–Iran/Persia: A hunting scene. Frontispiece from a divan of Hafez Shirazi (c. 1325-1390), 16th century. Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hāfez, was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry (Divan) are to be found in the homes of most Persian speakers in Iran and Afghanistan, as well as elsewhere in the world, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation.
RM2B01T2B–Iran/Persia: A hunting scene. Folio from a divan of Hafez Shirazi (c. 1325-1390), 16th century. Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hāfez, was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry (Divan) are to be found in the homes of most Persian speakers in Iran and Afghanistan, as well as elsewhere in the world, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation.
RM2B01EPF–India: Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530) the first Mughal Emperor, hunting for rhinoceros in Swat. Miniature painting from the Baburnama, late 16th century. Bāburnāma (literally: 'Book of Babur' or 'Letters of Babur'; alternatively known as Tuzk-e Babri) is the name given to the memoirs of Ẓahīr ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur, founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is an autobiographical work, originally written in the Chagatai language, known to Babur as 'Turki' (meaning Turkic), the spoken language of the Andijan-Timurids.
RM2B01FPD–Thailand: Searching for crabs, Hat Khao Lak (Khao Lak Beach), Phang Nga Province. Hat Khao Lak, fringed by casuarina trees, is divided into three separate beaches, Bang Niang in the north, Nang Thong in the centre, and Sunset Beach to the south. All have resorts and bungalows, but there is no crowding and there are some fine restaurants offering fresh seafood and magnificent views of the legendary Andaman Sea sunsets.
RM2B01ERD–India: Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), the first Mughal Emperor, hunting Rhinoceros near Peshawar. Miniature painting from the Baburnama, c. 1598. Bāburnāma (literally: 'Book of Babur' or 'Letters of Babur'; alternatively known as Tuzk-e Babri) is the name given to the memoirs of Ẓahīr ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur, founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur. It is an autobiographical work, originally written in the Chagatai language, known to Babur as 'Turki' (meaning Turkic), the spoken language of the Andijan-Timurids.
RM2B01EWN–India: The Emperor Akbar Hunting with Cheetahs. Miniature painting, c. 1602. Akbar (25 October 1542 - 27 October 1605), also known as Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam or Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal Emperor. He was of Timurid descent; the son of Emperor Humayun, and the grandson of Emperor Babur, the ruler who founded the Mughal dynasty in India. At the end of his reign in 1605 the Mughal empire covered most of the northern and central India. Akbar was thirteen years old when he ascended the Mughal throne in Delhi (February 1556), following the death of his father Humayun.
RM2B029GK–Odin (from Old Norse Óðinn) is a major god in Norse mythology, the Allfather of the gods, and the ruler of Asgard. His role, like that of many of the Norse gods, is complex. Odin is a principal member of the Æsir (the major group of the Norse pantheon) and is associated with war, battle, victory and death, but also wisdom, Shamanism, magic, poetry, prophecy, and the hunt. Odin has many sons, the most famous of whom is the thunder god Thor. Wednesday is the unified form of Woden's day as most days of the week are named after the Norse Gods.
RM2B02MR4–The Matagi (Japanese: 又鬼) are traditional winter hunters of the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, most famously today in the Shirakami-Sanchi forest between Akita and Aomori. They hunt deer and bear, and their culture has much in common with the bear cult of the Ainu. They live in small hamlets of the mountain beech forests of Tōhoku and engage in agriculture during the planting and harvest season. In the winter and early spring, they form hunting bands that spend weeks at a time in the forest. With the introduction of guns in the 20th century, the need for group hunting for bear has diminish
RM2B02MM0–The Matagi (Japanese: 又鬼) are traditional winter hunters of the Tōhoku region of northern Japan, most famously today in the Shirakami-Sanchi forest between Akita and Aomori. They hunt deer and bear, and their culture has much in common with the bear cult of the Ainu. They live in small hamlets of the mountain beech forests of Tōhoku and engage in agriculture during the planting and harvest season. In the winter and early spring, they form hunting bands that spend weeks at a time in the forest. With the introduction of guns in the 20th century, the need for group hunting for bear has diminish
RM2B0365T–Malaysia / China: Carving of Zhou Xin (King Zhou of Shang), depicting his role in the 16th Century Ming Dynasty novel Fengshen Yanyi ('Investiture of the Gods'). From Ping Sien Si Temple, Pasir Panjang Laut. Photo by Anandajoti (CC BY 2.0). Originally known as Di Xin, and sometimes Zhou Xin, King Zhou of Shang is the legendary last king of the Shang Dynasty of ancient China. His story and fall is famously told in the Ming Dynasty classic novel 'Fengshen Yanyi'. In his early reign, he was intelligent enough to win all arguments, and strong enough to hunt wild beast barehanded.
RM2B035XR–Malaysia / China: Carving of King Zhou of Shang, depicting his role in the 16th Century Ming Dynasty novel Fengshen Yanyi ('Investiture of the Gods'). From Ping Sien Si Temple, Pasir Panjang Laut. Photo by Anandajoti (CC BY 2.0). Originally known as Di Xin, and sometimes Zhou Xin, King Zhou of Shang is the legendary last king of the Shang Dynasty of ancient China. His story and fall is famously told in the Ming Dynasty classic novel 'Fengshen Yanyi'. It is said that in his early reign, he was intelligent enough to win all arguments, and strong enough to hunt wild beasts barehanded.
RM2B01B4P–Sri Lanka: Young farmer in the hills around Nuwara Eliya, central Sri Lanka. Nuwara Eliya was 'discovered' in 1826, by a group of British officers who had lost their way while on an elephant hunt. Back then Nuwara Eliya was a nondescript little village surrounded by thick jungle. This was rapidly to change. The officers informed the British governor of Ceylon, Sir Edward Barnes, of their find, and he in turn soon made his way to Nuwara Eliya. Nuwara Eliya - often shortened to Nurelia and meaning 'city of lights' - is situated 1,890 metres above sea level and is Sri Lanka's highest town.
RM2B034G8–Nuwara Eliya was 'discovered' in 1826, by a group of British officers who had lost their way while on an elephant hunt. Back then Nuwara Eliya was a nondescript little village surrounded by thick jungle. This was rapidly to change. The officers informed the British governor of Ceylon, Sir Edward Barnes, of their find, and he in turn soon made his way to Nuwara Eliya. Nuwara Eliya - often shortened to Nurelia and meaning 'city of lights' - is situated 1,890 metres above sea level and is Sri Lanka's highest town and as such blessed with a temperate, invigorating climate. Nuwara Eliya sits on a
RM2B03951–Nuwara Eliya was 'discovered' in 1826, by a group of British officers who had lost their way while on an elephant hunt. Back then Nuwara Eliya was a nondescript little village surrounded by thick jungle. This was rapidly to change. The officers informed the British governor of Ceylon, Sir Edward Barnes, of their find, and he in turn soon made his way to Nuwara Eliya. Nuwara Eliya - often shortened to Nurelia and meaning 'city of lights' - is situated 1,890 metres above sea level and is Sri Lanka's highest town and as such blessed with a temperate, invigorating climate. Nuwara Eliya sits on a
RM2B01AT5–Burma/Myanmar: 'View of the Great Dagon Pagoda (Shwedagon Pagoda) at Rangoon and scenery adjacent to the westward of the great road'. Engraving by George Hunt (1797-1872), 1825. The Shwedagon Pagoda, officially called Shwedagon Zedi Daw and also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a 98 metre (322 ft) gilded pagoda and stupa located in Yangon (Rangoon), Burma. The pagoda lies to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, on Singuttara Hill, thus dominating the skyline of the city. It is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda for the Burmese, with relics of the past four Buddhas enshrined within.
RM2B00N90–Afghanistan: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, reviewing Afghan National army troops, 23 July 2002. Photo by Bethann Hunt (United States Air Force). Hamid Karzai (24 December 1957 - ) is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001. During the December 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan in Germany, Karzai was selected by prominent Afghan political figures to serve a six-month term as chairman of the Interim administration.
RM2B00WE9–India: 'Leaving for the Hunt at Gwalior'. Oil on canvas painting by Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903), 1887. Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist and Orientalist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such they were able to accept, probably encourage, and certainly finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling.
RM2B00WDY–India: 'The Rajah Starting on a Hunt'. Oil on canvas painting by Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903), c. 1892. Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist and Orientalist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes. Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such they were able to accept, probably encourage, and certainly finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling.
RM2B01EWK–India: Emperor Akbar (25 October 1542 - 27 October 1605) controlling an elephant in musth during a hunt. Detail of leaf, c. early 17th century. Akbar (r. 1556-1605), also known as Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam or Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal Emperor. He was of Timurid descent; the son of Emperor Humayun, and the grandson of Emperor Babur, the ruler who founded the Mughal dynasty in India. At the end of his reign in 1605 the Mughal empire covered most of the northern and central India. Akbar was thirteen years old when he ascended the Mughal throne in Delhi (February 1556).
RM2B01T6F–Iran/Persia: A hunting scene. Safavid miniature painting, 16th-17th century. A Persian miniature is a small painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition of wall-painting, the survival rate and state of preservation of miniatures is better, and miniatures are much the best-known form of Persian painting in the West.
RM2B01T27–Iran/Persia: A hunting scene Folio from a divan of Hafez Shirazi (c. 1325-1390), 16th century. Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī, known by his pen name Hāfez, was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry (Divan) are to be found in the homes of most Persian speakers in Iran and Afghanistan, as well as elsewhere in the world, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day. His life and poems have been the subject of much analysis, commentary and interpretation.
RM2B00T0P–Afghanistan: Late 15th century painting of a hunting scene from the Hast Bahist by Kamal al-Din Bihzad. Kamal ud-Din Behzad Herawi (c. 1450 - c. 1535), also known as Kamal al-din Bihzad or Kamaleddin Behzad, was a painter of Persian miniatures and head of the royal ateliers in Herat and Tabriz during the late Timurid and early Safavid periods. An orphan, he was raised by the prominent painter Mirak Naqqash, and was a protege of Mir Ali Shir Nava'i. His major patron in Herat was the Timurid sultan Husayn Bayqarah (ruled 1469 - 1506).
RM2B00T39–Central Asia: Two riders hunting in the snow in Central Asia, 15th century. Painting from the school of Siyah Kalem. Mehmed Siyah-Kalem was a 15th-century artist known solely by the attribution of his name to a remarkable series of paintings preserved in the Imperial Ottoman Palace Library (Topkapi Saray). Nothing is known of his life, but his work indicates that he was of Central Asian (presumably Turkish) origin, probably from Iran or Turkestan, and thoroughly familiar with camp and military life. His paintings appear in the ‘Conqueror’s Albums’.
RM2B02XJD–Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua) is an ancient Mesopotamian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was the largest city in the world for some fifty years until, after a bitter period of civil war in Assyria itself, it was sacked by an unusual coalition of former subject peoples, the Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Chaldeans, Scythians and Cimmerians in 612 BCE. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq. In early 2015 the jihadist group ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) announced
RM2B02FWP–Probably born in Venice around 1254 CE, Marco Polo was raised by his aunt and uncle after his mother died. His father, Niccolo, was a Venetian merchant who left before Marco was born to trade in the Middle East. Niccolo and his brother Maffeo passed through much of Asia and met with Mongol emperor Kublai Khan who reportedly invited them to be ambassadors. In 1269, Niccolo and Maffeo returned to Venice, meeting Marco for the first time. In 1271, Marco Polo, aged 17, with his father and his uncle, set off for Asia, travelling through Constantinople, Baghdad, Persia, Kashgar, China and Burma. Th
RM2B01D35–Iraq: King Ashurbanipal (685-627 BCE) hunting in a palace relief from Nineveh, c. 640 BCE. Ashurbanipal, also spelt Assurbanipal or Ashshurbanipal, was an Assyrian king, the son of Esarhaddon and the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (r. 668-627 BCE). He established the first systematically organised library in the ancient Middle East, the Library of Ashurbanipal, which survives in part today at Nineveh. In the Bible he is called Asenappar (Ezra 4:10). Roman historian Justinus identified him as Sardanapalus.
RM2B01KEM–Iran/Persia: 'Never hence would I die for I am alive, having sown the seeds of poetry'. Gurgin betrays Bizhan. Miniature painting from the Shahnameh, c. 16th century. The Shahnameh or Shah-nama (Šāhnāmeh, 'The Book of Kings') is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Iran and related Perso-Iranian cultures. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells the mythical and to some extent the historical past of Greater Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.
RM2B01D3K–Iran: Hunting scene on a gilded silver bowl depicting King Khosrau I (512/514-579 CE), 7th century. Photo by World Imaging (CC BY-SA 3.0 License). Khosrau I (also called Xusro, Khosnow, Chusro, Khusro, Husraw or Khosrow, Chosroes in classical sources, most commonly known in Persian as Anushirvan, meaning the Immortal Soul), also known as Anushiravan the Just (r. 531-579), was the 25th Sassanid 'Shahanshah' (King of Kings) of Persia, and the most famous and celebrated of the Sasanian rulers.
RM2B01FYC–Korea/China: Hunting Scene, Tomb of the Dancers, from Koguryo, West Wall of the Burial Chamber, Tomb of the Dancers, Jilin Province, c. 5th century CE. Goguryeo or Koguryŏ was an ancient Korean kingdom located in present day northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula, southern Manchuria and southern Russian Maritime province. Along with Baekje and Silla, Goguryeo was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Goguryeo was an active participant in the power struggle for control of the Korean peninsula as well as associated with the foreign affairs of neighboring polities in China and Japan.
RM2B01733–Korea/Japan: 'Kato Kiyomasa Hunting Tigers in Korea during the Imjin War'. Ukiyo-e woodblock triptych by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), 19th century. Kato Kiyomasa (25 July 1562 - 2 August 1611) was one of the three senior commanders during the Seven-Year War (1592–1598) against the Korean dynasty of Joseon. Together with Konishi Yukinaga, he captured Seoul, Busan and many other crucial cities. He defeated the last Korean regulars in the Battle of Imjin River and pacified Hamgyong.
RM2B00T5A–China: The Admonitions Scroll, Scene 6 - Hunting on the Mountain (British Museum copy). The Admonitions Scroll is a Chinese narrative painting on silk that is traditionally ascribed to Gu Kaizhi (c.345-c.406 CE), but which modern scholarship regards as a 5th to 8th century work that may be a copy of an original Jin Dynasty (265–420 CE) court painting by Gu Kaizhi. The full title of the painting is Admonitions of the Court Instructress (Chinese: Nushi Zhentu). It was painted to illustrate a poetic text written in 292 by the poet-official Zhang Hua (232–300).
RM2B01KF1–Iran/Persia: Bahram Gur killing a lion. Miniature painting from the Demotte Shahnameh, c. 1328-1336. The Shahnameh or Shah-nama (Šāhnāmeh, 'The Book of Kings') is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Iran and related Perso-Iranian cultures. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh tells the mythical and to some extent the historical past of Greater Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century.
RM2B01E83–Iran/Persia: Bowl depicting Bahram Gur (400-438), hero of the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), and the harpist Azada, riding a Bactrian camel while hunting. Plate painting, 12th-13th century. Bahram V was the fourteenth Sassanid Shahanshah (King of Kings) of Persia (r. 421-438). Also called Bahram Gur or Bahramgur, he was a son of Yazdegerd I, after whose sudden death (or assassination) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of Mundhir, the Arab dynast of al-Hirah. Bahram Gur is a great favourite in Persian literature and poetry, with numerous legends to his name.
RM2B01ENC–India: Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1531), the first Mughal Emperor, hunting deer near Kabul. Miniature painting from the Babur-namah, c. 1590. Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur was a Muslim conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty of South Asia. He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother. Babur identified his lineage as Timurid and Chaghatay-Turkic, while his origin, milieu, training, and culture were steeped in Persian culture.
RM2B01DH0–Burma: A Karen tribesman with spear for hunting, c. 1892-1896. The Karen or Kayin people (Pwa Ka Nyaw Poe or Kanyaw in Sgaw Karen and Ploan in Poe Karen; Kariang or Yang in Thai), are a Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic group which resides primarily in southern and southeastern Burma (Myanmar). The Karen make up approximately 7 percent of the total Burmese population of approximately 50 million people. A large number of Karen also reside in Thailand, mostly on the Thai-Burmese border. The Karen are often confused with the Red Karen (or Karenni).
RM2B0350T–Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. In his Proserpine, the artist illustrates in his typical Pre-Raphaelite style the Roman goddess who lives in the
RM2B00XTC–Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam: Men from the Stieng ethnic group hunt with spears in the jungle, 1920. The Stieng people (Vietnamese: Xtieng) are an ethnic group of Vietnam and Cambodia that speak a Bahnaric language of Mon-Khmer roots. Most Stieng live in Binh Duong Province and Dong Nai Province in southeastern Vietnam. In Cambodia, they are grouped under the heading ‘Khmer Loeu’, referring to non-Khmer ethnic groups, or Degar peoples. Nowadays, many Stieng have converted to Christianity, though the total population of the group is estimated at just 6,000.
RM2B029FW–Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Shelley is perhaps best known for suc
RM2B029FY–Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Shelley is perhaps best known for suc
RM2B01DMH–Iraq/Italy: Hunting wild boar and hare with dogs and spear. Illustration from Ibn Butlan's Taqwim al-sihha or 'Maintenance of Health', published in Italy as the Tacuinum Sanitatis, 14th century. The Tacuinum (sometimes Taccuinum) Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on health and wellbeing, based on the Taqwim al‑sihha, an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Ibn Butlân was a Christian physician born in Baghdad and who died in 1068. He set forth six elements necessary to maintain daily health.
RM2B0208M–Bedouin (from the Arabic badawī بَدَوِي, pl. badw بَدْو or badawiyyūn بَدَوِيُّون) are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes, or clans, known in Arabic as ʿašāʾir (عَشَائِر).The term 'Bedouin' derives from a plural form of the Arabic word badawī, as it is pronounced in colloquial dialects. The Arabic term badawī (بدوي) derives from the word bādiyah (بَادِية), which means semiarid desert (as opposed to ṣaḥarāʾ صَحَرَاء, which means desert). Starting in the late nineteenth century, many Bedouin under British rule began to transit to a s
RM2B0380F–The Anwar-i Suhayli or 'The Lights of Canopus', commonly known as the Fables of Bidpai in the West, is a Persian version of the ancient Indian collection of animal fables, the Panchatantra. It tells a tale of a Persian physician, Burzuyah, and his mission to India, where he stumbles upon a book of stories collected from the animals who reside there. In a similar vein to the Arabian Nights, the fables in the manuscript are inter-woven as the characters of one story recount the next, leading up to three or four degrees of narrative embedding. Many usually have morals or offer philosophical glim
RM2B0380K–The Anwar-i Suhayli or 'The Lights of Canopus', commonly known as the Fables of Bidpai in the West, is a Persian version of the ancient Indian collection of animal fables, the Panchatantra. It tells a tale of a Persian physician, Burzuyah, and his mission to India, where he stumbles upon a book of stories collected from the animals who reside there. In a similar vein to the Arabian Nights, the fables in the manuscript are inter-woven as the characters of one story recount the next, leading up to three or four degrees of narrative embedding. Many usually have morals or offer philosophical glim
RM2B014AC–Iran: A man with an apparently recalcitrant Saluki hunting dog on a leash. Miniature painting on cloth by Sheyk Muhammad, mid-16th century.
RM2B0383J–The Anwar-i Suhayli or 'The Lights of Canopus', commonly known as the Fables of Bidpai in the West, is a Persian version of the ancient Indian collection of animal fables, the Panchatantra. It tells a tale of a Persian physician, Burzuyah, and his mission to India, where he stumbles upon a book of stories collected from the animals who reside there. In a similar vein to the Arabian Nights, the fables in the manuscript are inter-woven as the characters of one story recount the next, leading up to three or four degrees of narrative embedding. Many usually have morals or offer philosophical glim
RM2B0383G–The Anwar-i Suhayli or 'The Lights of Canopus', commonly known as the Fables of Bidpai in the West, is a Persian version of the ancient Indian collection of animal fables, the Panchatantra. It tells a tale of a Persian physician, Burzuyah, and his mission to India, where he stumbles upon a book of stories collected from the animals who reside there. In a similar vein to the Arabian Nights, the fables in the manuscript are inter-woven as the characters of one story recount the next, leading up to three or four degrees of narrative embedding. Many usually have morals or offer philosophical glim
RM2B03807–The Anwar-i Suhayli or 'The Lights of Canopus', commonly known as the Fables of Bidpai in the West, is a Persian version of the ancient Indian collection of animal fables, the Panchatantra. It tells a tale of a Persian physician, Burzuyah, and his mission to India, where he stumbles upon a book of stories collected from the animals who reside there. In a similar vein to the Arabian Nights, the fables in the manuscript are inter-woven as the characters of one story recount the next, leading up to three or four degrees of narrative embedding. Many usually have morals or offer philosophical glim
RM2B03804–The Anwar-i Suhayli or 'The Lights of Canopus', commonly known as the Fables of Bidpai in the West, is a Persian version of the ancient Indian collection of animal fables, the Panchatantra. It tells a tale of a Persian physician, Burzuyah, and his mission to India, where he stumbles upon a book of stories collected from the animals who reside there. In a similar vein to the Arabian Nights, the fables in the manuscript are inter-woven as the characters of one story recount the next, leading up to three or four degrees of narrative embedding. Many usually have morals or offer philosophical glim
RM2B00R72–Central Asia: Siyah Kalem School, 15th century: A hunting party with dogs and falcons. a leopard looks on. Siyah Kalem or 'Black Pen' is the name given to the 15th century school of painting attributed to Mehmed Siyah Kalem. Nothing is known of his life, but his work indicates that he was of Central Asian Turkic origin, and thoroughly familiar with camp and military life. The paintings appear in the 'Conqueror’s Albums', so named because two portraits of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror are present in one of them.
RM2B00W03–Algeria/Maghreb: ‘The Falconer’. Oil on canvas painting by Eugene Fromentin (1820-1876), which also shows Algerian locals on Barb horses, 1863. The sport of falconry was introduced to Algeria and the Maghreb by the Arabs over 1,000 years ago and was a favorite pastime of royalty and nobility. During the period of Arab expansion into North Africa, cavalry was often mounted on small, agile horses called ‘Berbers’, or ‘Barbs’.
RM2B0119J–China: Kublai Khan hunting on horseback. Hanging scroll painting by Liu Guandao (1258-1336), 1280. Chinese scroll painting Liu Kuan-tao showing a camel caravan carrying carpets in the background with the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan hunting in foreground; note hunting cheetah on back of saddle.
RM2B0102K–India: A hunting scene from the 'Padshahnamah', which chronicles the reign of Shah Jahan (1626-58), 18th century. Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram Shah Jahan I (1592 –1666), or Shah Jahan, from the Persian meaning ‘king of the world’, was the fifth Mughal ruler in India and a favourite of his legendary grandfather Akbar the Great. He is best known for commissioning the ‘Phadshahnamah’ as a chronicle of his reign, and for the building of the Taj Mahal in Agra as a tomb for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Under Shah Jahan, the Mughal Empire attained its highest union of strength and magnificence.
RM2B01B6D–Central Africa: 'Female Elephant Pursued with Javelins, Protecting Her Young'. Illustration by David Livingstone (19 March 1913 - 1 May 1873), 1857. Elephant ivory has been exported from Africa and Asia for centuries with records going back to the 14th century BCE. Throughout the colonisation of Africa ivory was removed, often using slaves to carry the tusks, to be used for piano keys, billiard balls and other expressions of exotic wealth. Ivory hunters were responsible for wiping out elephants in North Africa perhaps about 1,000 years ago and in much of South Africa in the 19th century.
RM2B012NH–Cambodia: A sketch of a deer killed by a tiger in the jungle north of Siem Reap. Illustration by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1836-1885), 1867. This drawing by A. de Neuville is based on an original by Louis Delaporte which was sketched during the French Mekong Exploration Commission's two-year venture (1866-68) into the jungles of Indochina. The deer was slain in front of their eyes by the tiger. The French colonialists fired off a couple of shots and drove the animal away, then cut off the stag's hindquarters and carried it to Siem Reap where the meat was salted.
RM2B0132W–Laos: A Frenchman and a local Lao hunting in the southern Laotian region of Champasak. Engraving by Louis Delaporte (1842-1925), 1866. The Kingdom of Champasak (1713-1946) was a kingdom in southern Laos that broke away from the Lan Xang kingdom in 1713. Champasak prospered at the beginning of the 18th century, but was reduced to a vassal state of Siam before the century had passed. Under French rule the kingdom was known as Bassac and became an administrative block with its royalty stripped of many of its privileges. The Kingdom of Champasak was subsumed into the Kingdom of Laos in 1946.
RM2B00WD7–Laos: 'Colonies Francaises le Laos': Postcard from the colonial period of Indochine Francaise/French Indochina. The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War, Anti-French War, Franco-Vietnamese War, Franco-Vietminh War, Indochina War, Dirty War in France, and Anti-French Resistance War in contemporary Vietnam) was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Emperor Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army against the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chí Minh.
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