File:Hamida Banu Begum, wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun.jpg

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Hamida begum The mother of badsha-e-hind jallauddi Mohamad akbar

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Hamida Banu Begum, wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun. Anglo-Indian school at Lucknow

Hamida Banu Begum's legacy is the mausoleum she commissioned, Humayun's Tomb, following his death.
Date circa late 19th century
Medium Opaque watercolour on warqa, laid down on later card
Dimensions height: 28.1 cm (11 in); width: 19.1 cm (7.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,28.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,19.1U174728
Inscriptions The inscription translates "Hamida Banu Begum, zauja (wife) Shah Jahan Badshah (king)". Collectors and dealers are usually pleased to find an old inscription on a painting, assuming it to be correct, but this is often - like here - not the case, in this instance having a husband still to be born! Identification of portraits Mughal Emperors' wives are notoriously difficult to identify due to the artists never having seen them, meaning they instead painted imaginary likenesses according to contemporary notions of beauty.
Source/Photographer http://www.indianminiaturepaintings.co.uk/Lucknow_Hamida-Banu-Begum_000495.html

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