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The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama

Basawan · Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), c. 1590-1595

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Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist

Basawan
Designed by Basawan, painted by Shankar

Date

Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), c. 1590-1595

Type

Painting

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Size

Image: 32 × 19.3 cm (12 5/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Outermost border: 33 × 19.6 cm (13 × 7 11/16 in.); Page: 34.4 × 20 cm (13 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)

Place

India

Period

Mughal painting · 16th century

Themes

Horses · Birds

Main colour

Gold & ochre · lightness 65, colourfulness 20

Art Institute of Chicago, Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-30); image released under CC0. Licence rules