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The War Elephants Citranand and Udiya Collide in Battle
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The War Elephants Citranand and Udiya Collide in Battle |
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This painting from the Akbarnama (Book of Akbar) is the left half of a double-page composition. The other side is Museum no. IS.2: 63-1896. It depicts the elephant Citranand attacking another, called Udiya, during the Mughal campaign against the rebel forces of Khan Zaman and Bahadur Khan in 1567. The Akbarnama was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605) 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. 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. |
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| Date | 1590-1595 (painted) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Opaque watercolour and gold on paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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IS.2:115-1896 |
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| current | 12:01, 11 January 2012 | | 323 × 528 (266 KB) | Sridhar1000 | for-better-view |
| 06:57, 5 October 2011 |  | 400 × 600 (139 KB) | Sridhar1000 |
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