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"Rājah Shivā Jī, Mahrattah": painting from Manucci's album of portraits, made for him by Mir Muhammad (Manucci, Storia do Mogor, tr. Irvine, Vol. III, 1907, pl. XXXV)

Black-and-white reproduction of an Indian painting of a bearded rider on a white horse holding a lance, surrounded by foot soldiers with spears and shields and a rider with a round shield, below a rocky hill.
Black-and-white reproduction of an Indian painting of a bearded rider on a white horse holding a lance, surrounded by foot soldiers with spears and shields and a rider with a round shield, below a rocky hill.
Type
Book plate
Creator
Niccolao Manucci's album (painter Mir Muhammad), reproduced in William Irvine's translation (John Murray)
Date
1907
Licence
Public domain
From
Niccolao Manucci (tr. William Irvine), Storia do Mogor, or Mogul India 1653-1708, Vol. III (opens in a new tab), 1907, pl. XXXV, facing p. 384 (PDF p. 431)
Original
archive.org (opens in a new tab)
Appears in
Marathas and the Telugu country, Shivaji