Arrange the following pictures in the order of their execution time?

(A) Noah’s Ark
(B) Jahangir’s Dream
(C) Tutinama: The Girl and the Parrot
(D) Jahangir enthroned on an Hourglass, Bichitra

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(C), (A), (B), (D)

The correct answer is Option (2) → (C), (A), (B), (D)

(C) Tutinama: The Girl and the Parrot: 1580–1585
(A) Noah’s Ark: 1590
(B) Jahangir’s Dream: (1618–22)
(D) Jahangir enthroned on an Hourglass, Bichitra: 1625

Explanation:

Tutinama: The Girl and the Parrot, 1580–1585, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

Noah’s Ark, from a dispersed Divan-i Hafiz painted manuscript of 1590, is an excellent painting in subdued colour palette and has been ascribed to Miskin, one of the masters at Akbar’s imperial atelier.

Jahangir’s Dream (1618–22) by Abul Hasan, given the title Nadir al Zaman, meaning the ‘Wonder of the Age’, refers to the Emperor’s dream, in which he was visited by Persian Safavid emperor Shah Abbas, his rival, who possessed the much desired province of Qandahar. Interpreting it as good omen, he had the court artist Abul Hasan paint the dream.

Jahangir enthroned on an Hourglass, Bichitra, 1625, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. In the painting, Jahangir enthroned on an Hourglass (1625), symbolism is creatively applied by the court painter, Bichitra, who can be seen on the emperor’s right hand corner holding a painting in his hand, which would be his offering to the mighty emperor.