Procession of the Emperor of Akbar in the Akbar Namah of Abu-l Fazl

In this scene, as in the other paintings of the manuscript, Emperor Akbar occupies the central position overlooking the entire representation. It is the procession of Akbar, arriving or leaving one of his palaces, in which the emperor appears riding an elephant with his tipical turban, next to his son, Prince Salim Jahangir future sovereign, dressed with a peshwaz and mounted in an elephantine, and a nobleman Mughal, also mounted in another pachyderm. The blade belongs to a second version of the Akbar Namah and with attention to detail, the delicate workmanship and passion for faithfully reproducing nature can be appreciated in it, all fundamental characteristics of Mughal art. The fringe corresponds to a copy of another manuscript, the Farhang-e Jahangir.