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Akbar II (r. 1806–37), who held little real power as the British tightened their control of India, still engaged in public ceremonies and processions. Here he is seated in durbar, or formal audience, upon a throne that features peacocks on the canopy, referring to the famous imperial throne of the seventeenth-century Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
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Title: Durbar of Emperor Akbar Shah II
Date: 1820–30
Geography: Country of Origin India
Medium: Opaque color and gold on paper
Dimensions:
Image: 29 5/8 × 24 5/16 in. (75.2 × 61.8 cm)
Frame: 36 × 30 1/2 × 1 in. (66 × 77.5 × 2.5 cm)
Classification: Codices
Credit Line: Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022
Accession Number: 2022.196
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