Falconers ride out as a lion attacks a fallen huntsman

Mounted falconers release a white falcon over a flock of birds on a rose-pink flowering hillside, with blue sea and golden hills beyond. Below, a rider on a grey horse raises a curved sword as he gallops toward a fallen man in red, who is attacked by a lion at his shoulder, while greyhounds, a spotted cheetah and a fox chase deer and hares across the green ground. Two columns of black nasta'liq verse run beneath the scene.

Persian miniature painting reached its height in the manuscript workshops of Herat, Tabriz, Shiraz and Isfahan between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on polished paper, a folio combined text, illumination and image on a single page, and the finest illustrated copies of the Shahnameh, the Khamsa of Nizami and the Conference of the Birds were commissioned by Timurid, Safavid and Mughal courts. Leaves from these dispersed manuscripts are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Library, the Chester Beatty Library and the Freer Gallery of Art.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.