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Akbar Mounting his Horse; page from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama (History of Akbar)
attributed to Sur Das Gujarati (Indian, active 16th century)
1605–07
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on paper; Nim qalam drawing
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Culture
- India, Mughal school, 17th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In nim qalam drawings, literally "half pen" in Persian, most of the composition is done with monochrome washes, with only a few areas brightly colored or embellished with gold.
