Akbar
1592
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1592
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Akbar is a 1592 paint by Miskina, a Mughal Painting work, depicting Hunting, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A man in red robes rides a white horse through a green field. Behind him, hunters drive deer and antelope toward a wide circle. Bows and arrows fill the air as animals scatter under a clear sky. This scene comes from the Akbarnama, a book about Emperor Akbar’s life. The artist Miskina painted it around 1590–95. Notice how the horses and riders crowd the edges, pushing the action inward. If you like this, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum’s other Akbarnama pages.
This illustration from the Akbarnama, created in 1592, forms the left side of a double-page composition depicting Akbar participating in a qamargah, a large-scale hunt where animals were driven into a central area for the emperor and his entourage. The painting includes early work by the artist Mansur, who later became a prominent Mughal artist, and features various animals native to the Lahore region at the time, such as the Pir Panjal markhor, Punjab urial, and blackbuck, alongside other species like nilgai, hare, chital, jackals, and a hyena. The scene also shows cheetahs being used for…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Miskin (c. 1560 - c. 1604), also known as Miskina, was a Mughal painter in the court of Akbar I. The name 'Miskin' itself is a pen name. Miskin is recorded by the historian and grand vizier of Akbar, Abu'l-Fazl, in a…
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