File:1565-Battle Scene with Boats on the Ganges-Akbarnama.jpg
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| Battle Scene with Boats on the Ganges, 1565
from the Akbarnama (   ) |
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| Artist | Tulsi (the elder) (artist), Jagjivan (artist) |
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| Title | Battle Scene with Boats on the Ganges, 1565 from the Akbarnama |
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| Description | This painting by the Mughal court artists Tulsi the Elder and Jagjivan from the Akbarnama (Book of Akbar) depicts Shuja’at Khan pursuing Asaf Khan on the River Ganges in north-east India. Asaf Khan was vizier to the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605). He was also a highly effective military leader but, for reasons that are obscure in the text of the Akbarnama, kept treasure that the Mughal forces had seized during a successful campaign in 1565. He tried to flee with his supporters across the Ganges, where Akbar’s forces, led by the general Shuja’at Khan, caught up with him. A fierce confrontation followed, depicted in this illustration, but Asaf Khan escaped. In 1567, he sent messengers to the court asking for forgiveness, which was granted. The Akbarnama was commissioned by Akbar as the official chronicle of his reign. It was written in Persian by his court historian and biographer, Abu’l Fazl, between 1590 and 1596, and the V&A’s partial copy of the manuscript is thought to have been illustrated between about 1592 and 1595. This is thought to be the earliest illustrated version of the text, and drew upon the expertise of some of the best royal artists of the time. Many of these are listed by Abu’l Fazl in the third volume of the text, the A’in-i Akbari, and some of these names appear in the V&A illustrations, written in red ink beneath the pictures, showing that this was a royal copy made for Akbar himself. After his death, the manuscript remained in the library of his son Jahangir, from whom it was inherited by Shah Jahan. |
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| Date | between 1590 and 1595 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Opaque watercolour and gold on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Height: 32 cm, Width: 19.4 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
IS.2:47-1896 |
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| Credit line | The V&A purchased the manuscript in 1896 from Frances Clarke, the widow of Major General John Clarke, who bought it in India while serving as Commissioner of Oudh between 1858 and 1862. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Tarh Tulsi Kalan Amal Jagjivan composition by Tulsi the Elder work [=painting] by Jagjivan |
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| Notes | Outline composed by Tulsi the elder, colours and details painted by Jagjivan. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
The Akbarnama was commissioned by the emperor Akbar as the official chronicle of his reign. It was written by his court historian and biographer Abu'l Fazl between 1590 and 1596 and is thought to have been illustrated between c. 1592 and 1594 by at least forty-nine different artists from Akbar's studio. After Akbar's death in 1605, the manuscript remained in the library of his son, Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) and later Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658). The Victoria and Albert Museum purchased it in 1896 from the widow of Major General Clarke, an official who had been the Commissioner in Oudh province between 1858 and 1862. Historical significance: It is thought to be the first illustrated copy of the Akbarnama. It drew upon the expertise of some of the best royal painters of the time, many of whom receive special mention by Abu'l Fazl in the A'in-i-Akbari. The inscriptions in red ink on the bottom of the paintings name the artists. |
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| current | 11:04, 11 January 2024 | | 1,600 × 2,400 (1.26 MB) | User-duck | Cropped background using CropTool with lossless mode. |
| 20:07, 15 March 2018 |  | 1,665 × 2,500 (1.29 MB) | User-duck | Reverted to version as of 07:24, 19 December 2011 (UTC) Matches other images | |
| 05:58, 18 April 2012 |  | 1,287 × 2,126 (2.38 MB) | Sridhar1000 | ............... | |
| 04:52, 24 March 2012 |  | 1,287 × 2,126 (2.38 MB) | Fatbuu | for better view | |
| 07:24, 19 December 2011 |  | 1,665 × 2,500 (1.29 MB) | Sridhar1000 | real version from museum | |
| 09:18, 3 November 2011 |  | 399 × 600 (134 KB) | Sridhar1000 |
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