An alleged portrait of Babur... but it's really not...

Source: www.bhikku.net/ archives/03/feb03.html 
(downloaded Dec. 2004)


The actual source of the "Babur" portrait

Source: http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Sultans_of_the_South_Arts_of_Indias_Deccan_Courts_1323_1687 (p.24)
(downloaded Mar. 2015)

"Sjah Barboer," from one of the Dutch author Francois Valentijn’s books of "Landbeschrijving," 1726

Source: ebay, Nov. 2005

*"The Mughal Emperor Babur (r.1526-30) [mislabeled], standing facing right and holding a hawk. Opaque watercolour. 1800-1825."* (BL)

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