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VIEW OF THE RED FORT SEEN FROM THE OPPSITE BANK OF THE YAMUNA

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June 30, 1820
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Akbar Shah II 1806–1837

VIEW OF THE RED FORT SEEN FROM THE OPPSITE BANK OF THE YAMUNA

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Fig. 29: S.E. VIEW OF THE RED FORT SEEN FROM THE OPPSITE BANK OF THE YAMUNA, by a Delhi artist, This view of the Red Fort is from a set of 0781 set of topographical drawings that in the first to include mostly Delhi rather than Agra views and also to the monuments into their landscape setting in a picturesque manner. In this picture the palace wall and the buildings thereon recede only slightly in perspective, the landscape is more skillfully manipulated particularly in order to make them appear to do so, It is a copy of one now in a private collection ascribed to Ghulam Ali Khan. It is a much more successful version of fig. 24 in its handling of the perspective. Here, the Asad Burj is in good condition unlike in fig. 24. The new palaces built by the Mughal princes are very obvious. Watercolor, 23.5 x 33.5. British Library, London, Add. Or.3119.

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