# Dog with pups

- Date: c. 1780
- Medium: Gum tempera and ink on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Image: 22 x 16.5 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/2 in.); Overall: 18.7 x 25 cm (7 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Culture: India, Rajasthan, Ajmer, probably Sawar school, 18th century
- Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ward in memory of her father, Charles Svec
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.77)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1969.77/1969.77_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Dogs were kept in the Mughal imperial palace and attentively cared for by one keeper for every two hunting dogs. Akbar’s biography notes that the emperor liked dogs so much he imported different breeds from distant lands, and Jahangir requested English hunting dogs from the ambassador Sir Thomas Roe. The tradition of collecting and keeping dogs was continued by the succeeding emperors and vassal kings.