matplotlib
diff --git a/‎lib/matplotlib/figure.py
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diff --git a/‎lib/matplotlib/tests/test_colorbar.py
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@@ -1909,7 +1909,12 @@ def colorbar(self, mappable, cax=None, ax=None, use_gridspec=True, **kw):
             else:
                 cax, kw = cbar.make_axes(ax, **kw)
         cax._hold = True
-        cb = cbar.colorbar_factory(cax, mappable, **kw)
+
+        # need to remove kws that cannot be passed to Colorbar
+        NON_COLORBAR_KEYS = ['fraction', 'pad', 'shrink', 'aspect', 'anchor',
+                             'panchor']
+        cb_kw = {k: v for k, v in kw.items() if k not in NON_COLORBAR_KEYS}
+        cb = cbar.colorbar_factory(cax, mappable, **cb_kw)
 
         self.sca(current_ax)
         self.stale = True
 
@@ -306,3 +306,12 @@ def test_colorbar_lognorm_extension():
     cb = ColorbarBase(ax, norm=LogNorm(vmin=0.1, vmax=1000.0),
                       orientation='vertical', extend='both')
     assert cb._values[0] >= 0.0
+
+
+def test_colorbar_axes_kw():
+    # test fix for #8493: This does only test, that axes-related keywords pass
+    # and do not raise an exception.
+    plt.figure()
+    plt.imshow(([[1, 2], [3, 4]]))
+    plt.colorbar(orientation='horizontal', fraction=0.2, pad=0.2, shrink=0.5,
+                 aspect=10, anchor=(0., 0.), panchor=(0., 1.))