"Camp Being Prepared in the Hills", Folio from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama. Folio from the Davis Album

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17th century · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper · Islamic Art

This painting is of the format and style of the so called Chester Beatty Akbarnama. This illustrated manuscript of the history of the Mughal emperor Akbar was dispersed with eight folios ending up in the Davis album. Here the background might have been altered or added to in the eighteenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

17th century

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915