Emperor Akbar Hunting with Cheetahs Scanned by AshLin from pg 16 of Treasures of Natural History (2005) eds A. S. Kothari & B. F. Chhapgar, Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, Mumbai.
Date circa 1602
Source From the Akbar Nama reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Author Painter at the Court of Akbar
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AkbarHunt.jpg
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae that occurs mainly in eastern and southern Africa and a few parts of Iran. |