Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c18.27

c18.27

of producing an acceptable duplicate, but not men of the first rank. The original pictures prepared for Akbar were most probably executed by the artists whose names are in Jahangir’s copy, as traces of their style are occasionally discernible, but it is hardly possible to regard the South Kensington *Akbarnāma* as the actual handiwork of Akbar’s school of book illustrators.