Jonah (Yunas) and the Whale (Giant Fish), Antique Mughal Manuscript Gouache Painting vintage art sculpture Much aged as evident

Much aged as evident

) Unusual in my experience to see a school girl map isolating a section of states in this manner

And happily an endless supply of origami papers at hand

which makes one feel now as if peeking into a house abandoned long ago

Jonah (Yunas) and the Whale (Giant Fish), Antique Mughal Manuscript Gouache Painting vintage art sculpture Much aged as evidentA wonderful small, antique Islamic manuscript page with gouache illustration of man held in the mouth of a giant fish, I believe representing the story of Jonah (Yunus) and the Whale (or giant fish) which is mentioned in the Qur'an and frequently illustrated in manuscripts. From what I understand, as it appears in the Qur'an, Yunas has fled the city of Nineveh on a ship after failing to convince its people to accept Allah. He boards a ship, and is