Lot Essay
This portrait is from an album of high quality miniature paintings of Monarchs produced in Delhi in the 1830s.
See also lot 124.
See also lot 124.
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DELHI, CIRCA 1830
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PORTRAIT OF AKBAR II (1221/1806-1253/1837)
Delhi, circa 1830
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the monarch seated on a gilded chair holding the pipe of a large hookah with an attendant standing behind him, inscribed above in black Abu Nasr Mu'in al-Din Muhammad Akbar Shah Padshah Ghazi and above the servant Nazir, mounted, framed and glazed
7½in. x 5¼in. (19cm. x 13cm.)
Delhi, circa 1830
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the monarch seated on a gilded chair holding the pipe of a large hookah with an attendant standing behind him, inscribed above in black Abu Nasr Mu'in al-Din Muhammad Akbar Shah Padshah Ghazi and above the servant Nazir, mounted, framed and glazed
7½in. x 5¼in. (19cm. x 13cm.)
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