# Akbar Offering Timur's Crown to Shah Jahan

**Islamic**  
Mughal period (1526–1857), ca. 1650–1700  
Ink on paper  
21.2 × 15.6 cm (8 3/8 × 6 1/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.311. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/53563).

## About this work

Islamic painted this in the Mughal period (1526–1857), ca. 1650–1700. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of ink on paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Ink on paper.** Ink made from soot and animal glue, ground with water on an inkstone. A single brush can give a hair-fine line or a broad wash, and nothing can be corrected.

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## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: Iran
- Real size: about 8½ × 6 in (21 × 15 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: Islamic (culture or style)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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