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Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories)

Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories)

Shravana · 1598–1600

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Palette

Tan
46% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.5:1

Pale stone
24% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 11.5:1

Taupe
15% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1

Coral
7% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.4:1

Brick
4% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.8:1

Honey
3% of the image
Orange · text contrast 7.8:1

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: Shravana
Indian, active 1550s–c.1600
Date: 1598–1600
Type: Painting
Medium: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Size: Image: 14.7 x 9.8 cm (5 13/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
Place: Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
Period: 16th century
Themes: Reading and letters
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 64, colourfulness 24

Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Cleveland Museum of Art marks it public domain (share_license_status = CC0). Europe: Made by Shravana (death year unrecorded), made by 1600: its maker died long before 1956, and any term counted from publication has also run out. Last checked 2026-10-31 (share_license_status is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules