The wolf and the jackal, serving as viziers, instigate the lion who pursues the Brahman up a tree, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-first Night (Q60466795)

Label from: English (en)

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artist: no value
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location of final assembly: Mughal Empire (Q33296)
part of: Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot) (Q60466177)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.279.152.a

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: The Brahman perches precariously at the top of a tree as the hungry lion waits below surrounded by wolves and jackals. Previously, the lion’s other viziers, the deer and the gazelle, had counseled the lion to treat the Brahman with kindness. They appear again to save the Brahman life.

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