Sikandra, near Agra, Uttar Pradesh: mausoleum of the Emperor Akbar. Coloured etching by William Hodges, 1788.

The mausoleum is the subject of another, later, view by Thomas and William Daniell, published in their series Oriental scenery, I, with lettering "Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar at Secundra, near Agra". See Mildred Archer op. cit.

The mausoleum of the emperor Akbar was built by his son and successor, Jahangir. The building was completed in 1613

London (103 Strand) : J. Grives, 23 January 1788.

1 print : soft ground etching with aquatint, printed in sepia, with watercolour ; platemark 32.7 x 48 cm.

An uncoloured impression of this print also exists in the Wellcome Library

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco, 1991, vol. 2, no. 416.39

Mildred Archer, Early views in India, London 1980, no. 30

Catherine B. Asher, Architecture of Mughal India, Cambridge 1992 (The New Cambridge history of India, part I, vol. 4), pp. 105-111

Wellcome Collection 26823i