Ali Gholi Khan Shamlu

• Reference: Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, Volume 17, p.64, fig. 20
• "The second work is a portrait of 'Ali Quli Khan Shamlu, Prince 'Abbas's guardian and commander of Herat (see fig. 20). An inscription by Muhammadi reads, "[This] was drawn by the order of the Nawwāb-i Jahān-bānī (His Imperial Majesty) [by] the slave who seeks high fortune [for His Majesty], the painter Muhammadi, at the capital city of Herat, in the year 992 [1584]." Ναwwāb-i Jahān-bānī is a term that Iskandar Beg and Qadi Ahmad consistently used when referring to Hamza Mirza. Furthermore, the seal of Shah 'Abbas I engraved with the date of his first regnal year (995 [1587]), i.e., three years later than the painting date, indicates that the drawing was not made for 'Abbas, but only entered into his possession on the occasion of his accession to the throne, when he inherited the royal treasury of his elder brother." Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, Volume 17, p.66