"Mādana Brahman, Chief Minister of Gūlkandah": Madanna, minister of Abul Hasan Qutb Shah, from Manucci's album of portraits (Storia do Mogor, tr. Irvine, Vol. III, 1907, pl. XXXVII)

Black-and-white reproduction of an Indian painting of a man seated under a canopy, surrounded by rows of attendants in white with spears, elephants in the middle ground and a hill behind; a Persian label above the canopy.

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. XXXVII, facing p. 454 (PDF p. 505); Vol. II, p. 294 note
Original: archive.org (opens in a new tab)
Appears in: Qutb Shahis, Marathas and the Telugu country, Madanna, Golconda