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Add Or 342
- Record Id:
- 032-003263625
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263625
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x00004a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 342
- Title:
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The Emperor Akbar Shah II and four of his sons. Artist(s): Ghulam Murtaza Khan (fl. 1800-30)
- Scope & Content:
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The emperor Akbar Shah II (1806-37).
By Ghulam Murtaza Khan, Mughal, Delhi, c.1815.
Purchased April 1956.
Signed on left of sky in Persian: ‘‘amal-i nadir al-zaman bihzad raqam mulazzam-i huzur-i vala ghulam murtaza khan’ (the work of the Wonder of the Age, Peer of Bihzad, attendant upon the exalted presence, Ghulam Murtaza Khan).
Gouache with gold; on card with an inner border of broad gold and black rules.
382 by 279 mm; page 432 by 331 mm.
Reproduced: Losty (1986), 63; Losty and Leach (1998), pl. 32.
Akbar II sits on a plinth with gold-embroidered cushions, wearing a fur-trimmed turban within a broad gold halo. Four princes sit on the carpet before the emperor: on the extreme left is Mirza Salim, second from the left is Mirza Jahangir Bahadur, third from the left is Abu Zafar Siraj al-Din Muhammad (later the emperor Bahadur Shah II), and the fourth is unidentified. The white-bearded courtier standing on the right is Shah Hajji Khawass (cf. Victoria and Albert Museum 289-1871), and a more portly courtier stands on the left.
The same artist signed another durbar scene of Akbar II in AH1224/1809-10 (Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. VIII, ‘Paintings from India’, by Linda York Leach, London, 1998, no. 44), which shows Mirza Salim as about five years younger. Both of the courtiers in our scene appear behind the Emperor in the Khalili version.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263625
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263625
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Mughal style
Mughal/19th century style - Start Date:
- 1814
- End Date:
- 1816
- Date Range:
- c 1815
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 227i
- Exhibitions:
- Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia, British Library, 24 May 2002 - 15 September 2002
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Akbar II, Mughal emperor of India, 1760-1837
Ghulam Murtaza Khan, painter, fl 1760-1840
Jahangir, Mirza, d 1821
Salim, Mirza - Subjects:
- Portraits