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

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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.

"Camp Being Prepared in the Hills", Folio from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama. Folio from the Davis Album, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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