Miniature (painting)

Scope note

Use for paintings on a very small scale, especially the portraits on vellum or ivory popular in England and America from the Renaissance into the 19th century. For paintings in Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, use "illustrations."

This term has 927 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Object name
Object category

Getty AAT term number

300033936

Broader Terms used

<paintings by form>

Term used for

limnings
miniature paintings
miniatures (paintings)
miniatures, portrait
portrait miniatures

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

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Ferokla Silvere Padshaw (?)

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Krishna and Radha seated on the marriage couch in an upper room

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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An illustration to a romance - an encampment in the yard of a house with two bearded men, surrounded by a family, listening to a messenger

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Girl, full-length, standing on a stool, drying her hair after bathing

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Humaroon Shaw Padshaw

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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A prince, probably the Emperor Babur, seated in a pavilion in a garden, with six attendants

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Head and shoulders of a Mogul courtier seen through a window, holding a flower

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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A Mogul courtier standing, facing left

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Lady seated, caressing a gazelle

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Two men with archer's rings on thumbs, dressed in white muslin clothes, one giving the other a lemon

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Two princes and a courtier seated on the ground facing right

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Muhmud Padshaw

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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A raid on Homs during the caliphate of Musta'in

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Krishna and his brother Balarama wrestling with the champions; in another scene, overturning an elephant

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Young man seated playing the vina

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Prince seated on a dais with a lady and two female attendants

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Unknown Lady

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Majer, Jeremias

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An Indian Lady holding a bowl and a flask, accompanied by a gazelle

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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A young Prince seated on a rock, drinking

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Lady John Manners d. 1854

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Pendant: Pegasus Drinking from the Fountain of Hippocrene

Maker(s)

Jeweller: Carlo & Arthur Giuliano
Designer: Ricketts, Charles de Sousy

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Portrait of a courtier, facing right, hands clasped

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Huntsmen loading the body of a lioness onto a kneeling elephant in a landscape

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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Elephant trumpeting

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Unknown

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