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The penultimate emperor Akbar Shah II (r.1806-1837) presides at a durbar in the Red Fort at Delhi. Powerless and impoverished, he was permitted few privileges by the British but could still indulge in court ceremonial. This composition is known in a number of versions. There is growing European influence in the modified recession of the durbar hall and the way some faces are in three–quarter view instead of profile.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 33 on p. 86, p. 88, illus. p. 87
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