Two Mughal imperial portraits.

Two miniatures, copies of well-known Mughal imperial portraits: 1. (25x 15 cm) The Mughal emperor Jahângir (r. 1605-1627), on horseback, wearing a turban and arrayed in a rich dress. It is a carefully excuted (mirrored) copy of the single figure of the emperor from a larger scene, "Jahângir Receives a Prisoner", in the collection of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. - 2. (27,5 x 18 cm) A copy of a famous miniature from the Tuzuk-i Jahângiri ("Memoirs of Jahângir"), now in the British Museum, in which Jahângir weighs his son Khorram (the later emperor Shâh Jahân) against gold and silver, "a ceremony associated with the beginning of the solar year" (see J.M. Rogers, "Mughal Miniatures". London, British Museum, 1993, pp. 90-92, illustration no. 58). Large scales dominate the imperial interior, Jahângir is standing in the middle, prince Khorram is sitting on one of the trays, on the other two courtiers are putting the gold and silver, another six turbaned men are standing in attendance, more trays with different costly materials are in front of the scene. Both miniatures are painted on leaves from manuscripts of unrelated Persian texts of a medical and a pharmacological nature which may date from the 18th century.