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Add Or 709
- Record Id:
- 032-003263648
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263648
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000061
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 709
- Title:
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Raja Dhian Singh (1769-1843)
- Scope & Content:
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Raja Dhian Singh (1796-1843).
Punjab Plains, Sikh, c.1840-45.
Purchased 26 October 1954 from Mrs Vandaleur, a descendant of Sir Herbert Edwardes, assistant to Henry Lawrence, resident at Lahore in 1847 and 1848. The pictures were found amongst Edwardes’s papers (‘see also:’ Add.Or.707-708, 2640-2647, etc.).
Originally inscribed on fly-leaf in ink in Urdu: ‘Dhian Singh’; in English: ‘Dhyan Sing, Prime Minister of Lahore.’
Gouache with gold; floral and pink borders.
194 by 142 mm; page 258 by 204 mm.
Raja Dhian Singh, the younger brother of Maharaja Gulab Singh, rides a prancing piebald horse, holding a white kerchief in his hand. An attendant follows on foot with a sunshade.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Edwardes Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263648
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263648
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Punjab style
- Start Date:
- 1840
- End Date:
- 1845
- Date Range:
- 1840-1845
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian miniatures in the India Office Library (London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), 555iii
- Exhibitions:
- Sikh Art: Warm and Rich and Fearless, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 9 March 1991 - 2 June 1991
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Singh, Dhian, Raja, prime minister of the Sikh Empire, 1796-1843
- Subjects:
- Portraits
Sikhs
ethnic and religious groups