Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (reigned 1719–1748) holding a falcon (recto)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (reigned 1719–1748) holding a falcon (recto)

Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s) · 1764

Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The archer’s thumb ring is for drawing the bowstring. Perhaps he was left-handed.

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