Freshman art history student discovers identity of anonymous subject in Mughal miniature
Man with a Flowered Coat, 18th century, India, watercolour on paper Gift of Mr. Ambrose Cramer The identity of a nobleman depicted in an 18th-century Indian miniature painting at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, was recently uncovered by a first-year student at the university, and corroborated by another graduating next spring. Previously known only as Man with a Flowered Coat, the sartorially stunning subject holding a scroll and writing implement has been identified as Sayyid Muzzafar, the commander-in-chief for the 17th-century sultan Abul Hasan. ...
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