Eastern Encounters Exhibition, Holyrood Palace, 23 July 2020 - 31 Jan 2021

The Eastern Encounters exhibition takes place at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh from 23 July 2020 to 31 January 2021. Located in the Queen’s Gallery, it looks at four centuries of painting and manuscripts from the Indian Subcontinent. The Royal Collection contains a number of extraordinary artefacts from the 400-year shared history of the British monarchy and the rulers of South Asia. Highlights include Padshahnama (‘Book of Emperors’), an illustrated chronicle commissioned by the fifth Mughal Emperor Shah-Jahan as a celebration of his reign and dynasty, a Quran owned by Tipu Sultan of Mysore with an illuminated frontispiece and a posthumous portrait of Maharajah Ranjit Singh, the Sikh ruler of the Punjab, c.1842.

The Eastern Encounters exhibition is on at Holyrood Palace from 23 July 2020 to 31 January 2021. This exhibition was originally scheduled from 3 April to 13 September 2020 but was changed due to COVID-19.

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