MAKE A MEME View Large Image Salim Kills Rhinoceros and a Lion.jpg Salim Kills Rhinoceros and a Lion c 1600-04 Folio from a Shikarnama Hunting Album Held by The Chester Beatty Library Dublin Salim's Hunting Book In 50 1 Source This painting though in different borders ...
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Keywords: Salim Kills Rhinoceros and a Lion.jpg Salim Kills Rhinoceros and a Lion c 1600-04 Folio from a Shikarnama Hunting Album Held by The Chester Beatty Library Dublin Salim's Hunting Book In 50 1 Source This painting though in different borders was once part of a Shikarnama an album of images of the hunt presumably compiled for the Mughal prince Salim the future emperor Jahangir A shikari hunt attendant holds up the head of a dead lioness for the prince to inspect while in the foreground is a pile of at least four dead rhinoceros indicating that this must have been an especially successful hunt In the background is a pile of dead antelope and around them a group of shikaris most of whom are looking or gesturing towards the cheetah on the other side of the stream that has just brought down yet another antelope 1600-04 http //warfare2 likamva in/Moghul/17thC/Moghul_17thC htm author PD-old-100 Paintings of Jahangir Uploaded with VicuñaUploader Rhinoceros hunting Hunting by cheetah
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