id: 118630 accession number: 1939.65 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.65 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:38.197000 Akbar Mounting his Horse; page from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama (History of Akbar), 1605–07. Attributed to Sur Das Gujarati (Indian, active 16th century). Gum tempera and ink on paper; Nim qalam drawing; image: 23 x 12.4 cm (9 1/16 x 4 7/8 in.); overall: 43.2 x 28.2 cm (17 x 11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1939.65 title: Akbar Mounting his Horse; page from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama (History of Akbar) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1605–07 creation date earliest: 1605 creation date latest: 1607 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Mughal school, 17th century technique: Gum tempera and ink on paper; Nim qalam drawing department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sur Das Gujarati (Indian, active 16th century) - artist --- measurements: Image: 23 x 12.4 cm (9 1/16 x 4 7/8 in.); Overall: 43.2 x 28.2 cm (17 x 11 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: recto, upper right in Persian: "Wa zahi daulatmandi" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Wells Objects of Art, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1939 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1939- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 146183 Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, painting 126 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602), c. 1602–3. Attributed to Dharam Das (Indian, active c. 1580–1605). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; image: 22.9 x 12.1 cm (9 x 4 3/4 in.); sheet with border: 34.7 x 22.5 cm (13 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1971.76 relationship: --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 779 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n139 Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 18ii url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.65/1939.65_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.65/1939.65_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.65/1939.65_full.tif