Illustration with two captions. At the centre is a woman breastfeeding an infant, with a nanny goat nursing a kid below her. On the right, two figures sit at other tents, and six naked infants play on the grass. There is a shepherd and more goats in the bottom right
AKM288.10, Motherly Love, Folio from a manuscript of the Ethics of Nasir (Akhlaq-i Nasiri), Fol.171v

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Folio page with a rectangular text box in the lower right. There are 12 lines of black text, and the box has a green, gold, and black line border around the box. The remainder of the page is plain beige paper
AKM288.10, Motherly Love, Folio from a manuscript of the Ethics of Nasir (Akhlaq-i Nasiri), Fol.171r

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Motherly Love, Folio from a manuscript of the Ethics of Nasir (Akhlaq-i Nasiri)
  • Accession Number:AKM288.10
  • Creator:Artist (painter attributed): Dhan Raj
    Author: Nasir al-Din Tusi, Persian, 1201 - 1274
    Created for: Nasir al-Din `Abd al-Rahim
  • Place:Pakistan, Lahore
  • Dimensions:23.9 x 14.2 cm
  • Date:ca. 1590–1595
  • Materials and Technique:opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper
  • This painting marks the start of the Third Discourse. For Nasir al-Din Tusi, love can be divided into two kinds: natural and voluntary. This folio concerns the love of the mother for the child, an example of natural love.

     

    See AKM288 for an introduction to a manuscript of the Ethics of Nasir (Akhlaq-i Nasiri) and links to the other paintings within this manuscript.

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