Article: Muraqqa': Imperial Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

Muraqqa', on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, May 3 to August 3, 2008, is part of the two-year Celebration of India at the Freer and Sackler Galleries which showcases India's rich artistic and cultural heritage. From Washington the exhibition travels to the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and the Denver Art Museum.

This is the first time an extensive exhibition of the Chester Beatty Library's Mughal-era Indian collection has travelled from Dublin. (1) It consists of 86 works mainly from six muraqqa' or albums commissioned by the Mughal emperors Jahangir (r. 1605-27) and ...

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