Portraits of Sultan Ibrahim and Muhammad Azam Shah, India, Mughal style, late 19th century Gouaches and gold on paper framed with two borders and a floral margin on salmon paper, each depicting a portrait of a man behind a parapet on a monochrome background under a band of sky. The first, Sultan Hariem facing left, has a nimbed face and is wearing a white turban with golden braids and a white jama with a golden belt with floral decoration. He is armed with a katar slipped into his belt and a talwar which he grips with his left hand, his right hand resting on its handle. The second, Muhammad Azam Shah, facing right, has a nimbed face and wears a red and gold turban with a gold sarpush and egret, and is dressed in an ecru jama with green floral motifs and a golden belt. On his gloved right hand rests a bird of prey. On the back of each painting, an inscription in black ink identifying the subjects in Dutch and Persian for Sultan Ibrahim and in Portuguese for Muhammad Azam Shah. Each page framed with a strip of white paper pencilled with the legend on the first portrait, labeled with the number 120 on the second. Size of pages: 27.4 x 20.5 and 19.3 x 14.5 cm; size of paintings: 18.9 x 11.9 and 12.5 x 7.7 cm Very light stains. The inscriptions on the back of these portraits suggest that they were made for European patrons. They are directly inspired by the portraits of rulers of the Mughal Empire in the Witsen Album of the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam (RP-T-00-3186), painted around 1686 in Golconde. The portrait of Azam Shah is copied from a late seventeenth-century original in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (IS.227-1950). Sultan Ibrahim probably refers to Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II, a descendant of the Ottoman dynasty that ruled the Bijapur Sultanate in the Deccan from 1579 to 1627. Muhammad Azam Shah was the third son of Emperor Aurangzeb. He ruled the Mughal Empire briefly from March 14, 1707 to June 20, 1707 when he was killed at the Battle of Jajau. A Portrait of Sultan Ibrahim and a Tiny Portrait of Muhammad Azam Shah, India, late 19th century