Mounted Hunter with Dog Pursuing Game Birds

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The tiny holes around the figure of this hunter chasing game birds indicate that this sketch was used as a pounce, to copy the image onto another work. In Islamic paintings, stock figures that filled court or battle scenes or natural elements that elaborated landscape backgrounds were often copied into a number of compositions from preexisting sketches such as this. Holes were pricked around the image to be copied and transferred onto an underlying paper by dusting charcoal over it.

Mounted Hunter with Dog Pursuing Game Birds, Ink and transparent watercolor on paper

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