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Add Or 1039
- Record Id:
- 040-003272062
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003272061
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x0009aa
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 1039
- Title:
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Head and shoulders portrait of the emperor Akbar
- Scope & Content:
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Portrait of Akbar.
Mughal, c.1600.
Inscribed on reverse: ‘Akber’; in Persian characters: ‘akbar badshah’ (the emperor Akbar); numbered ‘1’.
Drawing on paper with other sketches of a medallion and a girl’s face; mounted with border of grey paper.
133 by 130 mm; page 224 by 160 mm.
Reproduced: Smith (1917), facing p.422; Brown (1917), pl.LXV, fig.2; Smith (1919), 367; Binyon and Arnold (1921), pl.X; Hambly (1968), fig.9; Gascoigne (1971), 106.
A head-and-shoulders portrait of the emperor Akbar, with head inclined downwards to the left, eyes almost closed, a drooping moustache, side-whiskers, and a loosely wound turban.
Note: This portrait has been frequently reproduced as a contemporary portrait of Akbar.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Buchanan-Hamilton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003272061
040-003272062 - Is part of:
- Add Or 1039-1091 : Add.Or.1039-1091 Fifty-three drawings from an artist’s atelier. Formerly Album 57, nos.1-53. Mughal, chiefly 18th century.…
Add Or 1039 : Head and shoulders portrait of the emperor Akbar - Hierarchy:
- 032-003272061[0001]/040-003272062
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 1039-1091
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Mughal style
Mughal/Akbar style - Start Date:
- 1599
- End Date:
- 1601
- Date Range:
- c 1600
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: drawing
- Publications:
- Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, by J.P. Losty and M. Roy (London, 2012), fig. 36
- Exhibitions:
- The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, National Portrait Gallery, London, 11 March - 20 June 2010
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Akbar I, Mughal emperor of India, 1542-1605,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000085699324 - Subjects:
- Portraits