St. Petersburg Muraqqa

Jahangir entertains Shah Abbas, from the St. Petersburg Album; Bishandas, Muhammad Sadiq (borders); Mughal; India; c. 1620, 1746–47 (borders); Opaque watercolour, gold and ink on paper; 25 x 18.3 cm. National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

An album of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and calligraphy manuscripts from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It was assembled in present-day Iran from artworks looted by Nader Shah in 1739. The album is presently housed at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.