Cleveland Museum of Art
The Mausoleum of Akbar at Secundrabad
- Date
- early 1800s
- Medium
- watercolor on paper
- Culture
- India, Company School, early 19th century
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Before the invention of photography, British travelers in India collected watercolor sketches of monuments and picturesque scenes. This tomb near Agra marks the burial place of one of India’s most illustrious rulers, the Mughal emperor Akbar (1542–1605). In reality it is dominating in scale and ornamented with complex geometric and floral motifs articulated in multicolored stone inlays, relief carvings, and paintings. In this sketch, the site has been rendered in the muted tones that appealed to British taste of the time, and its ornament has been reduced and simplified, giving little indication of its grandeur.
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