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A work made of opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

Kichik Beg Wounded during Babur's Attack on Qalat, from a copy of the Baburnama (Book of Babur)

Mughal · c. 1590

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Palette

Honey
 50% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 7.9:1
Putty
 25% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 9.0:1
Green earth
 17% of the image
Green · text contrast 5.0:1
Ivory
 4% of the image
Green · text contrast 14.8:1
Tan
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1
Copper
 1% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.8:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Mughal
Designed by Kanha (fl. c.1580-early 1590s), painted by Mansur (fl. c.1590-1630)
Date
c. 1590
Type
Painting
Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Size
Image: 23.9 × 12.9 cm (9 3/8 × 5 1/16 in.); Outermost Border: 35.8 × 15.4 cm (13 7/8 × 6 1/16 in.); Paper: 31.7 × 21.6 cm (12 3/8 × 8 1/2 in.)
Place
India
Period
Mughal painting · 16th century
Themes
Reading and letters
Main colour
Yellow · lightness 67, colourfulness 33

Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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