The Adventures of Hamza. Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India

Washington DC: The Smithsonian Institution, 2002.

Large hardback catalogue published for the exhibition. Quarto. 320 pages. With the excellent, pictorial dust-jacket, unmarked / as new. Without old inscriptions of other interior markings. A fine copy. The Adventures of Hamza, or "Hamzanama", is a large and heavily decorated manuscript made for the Indian emperor Akbar in the 17th century. More than sixty pages from the manuscript were brought together (the majority from the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna) for a travelling exhibition which began at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC in 2002. The catalogue features hundreds of colour illustrations, several learned essays and lengthy catalogue entries.