Object number1996.15.4

Portrait of Akbar

Date1700s

Artist Currently Unidentified

CultureIndian [Northern]

MediumOpaque watercolor and gold on paper

DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 x 5 7/8 in. (23 x 15 cm)

Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections: Gift of Ruth Lamb Atkinson, class of 1918

On View

Not on view

PeriodLate 18th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper right corner in ink: 4 [circled]; upper center in Arabic: [name]: center in Dutch: Dit is de vierde Koning / van Hindostan ge,, / ,,naamt Akber Cha. [This is the fourth king of Hindostan named Akbar.]

Vassar Exhibitions

India in Miniature: Works from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition HistoryPeoples of Asia Hall, extended loan to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, August 1980 - September 1995;

India in Miniature: Works from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 24 - April 23, 2017
DescriptionDepiction of a seated man, Akbar, in three-quarter profile as he holds a small object in his left hand and holds a strand of pearls in his right hand. He is dressed in a gold belted pink garment and wears strands of pearls and other jewels. A halo gleams around his head and he sits against a plain blue background and white ground.

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