Gallery›Cleveland Museum of Art›The young man changes himself to look like Mansur, and thus inveigles himself into the bed of Mansur’s wife, but is put off by her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night
Cleveland Museum of Art
The young man changes himself to look like Mansur, and thus inveigles himself into the bed of Mansur’s wife, but is put off by her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night
c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art
The imposter offers the woman a packet of paan to freshen her breath before love play.
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