AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR AKBAR HAWKING
AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR AKBAR HAWKING

MUGHAL DELHI, INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR AKBAR HAWKING
MUGHAL DELHI, INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, his head turned to the viewer, richly attired with a bejewelled turban and white tunic, bearing a tulwar and a katar, his falcon perched on his right arm fitted with a falconry glove, the rein of his dapple gray horse in the left hand, in floral margins with red and black rules, laid down on gold-speckled card
16 x 10 ½in. (40.6 x 26.8cm.)

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