Extent: 1 painting on paper : watercolor ; image 11.6 x 6.7 cm.
Note:
Mounted: 31.4 x 21.1 cm. Watercolor on tan Arabic paper; two illuminated strips of text added to top and bottom; framed in beige paper painted with red, gold, and green floral pattern; outer frame of dark blue paper with gold and orange borders; entire piece mounted onto heavy paper. Small cartouche above portrait reads "Pīr Ghulām Balchand 956" [=1549 or 50 AD]; however this date is spurious as Akbar was a boy then. Balchand did paint portraits of Akbar in his old age ca. 1630.
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