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Add Or 3003
- Record Id:
- 032-003263862
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003263862
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000137
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3003
- Title:
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Maharaja Ranbir Singh (1857-85) of Jammu and Kashmir
- Scope & Content:
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Maharaja Ranbir Singh (1857-85) of Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu, c.1880.
Presented by Miss Ina C. Turnbull, 16 February 1948.
Inscribed on reverse: ‘His Highness the Maharaja Jummoo and Kashmir. G.C.S.I.,’ ‘C’.’I.E.’
Gouache; mauve mount with yellow margin and crimson and blue rules; dark blue border with Kangra-type floral scroll pattern.
210 by 158 mm; page 250 by 195 mm.
Published: W.G. Archer (1973), I, 212, no.75, and II, 160.
Raja Ranbir Singh wearing a deep yellow dress and heavily bejewelled pink coat, sits on a throne holding a sword in a crimson scabbard with one foot resting on a foot-stool. Around his neck he wears the order of a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India. Behind him stands an attendant also in a deep yellow dress holding a peacock-feather fan. On the floor is a gold and crimson rug; pale blue background.
Note: Copy of a photograph by Bourne and Shepherd of Ranbir Singh taken at Lord Lytton’s Delhi Durbar, January 1877 (Photo 99 (32)).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003263862
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003263862
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Pahari style
Pahari/Jammu style
Punjab style - Start Date:
- 1879
- End Date:
- 1881
- Date Range:
- c 1880
- 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), 558
- 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:
- Ranbir Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, 1857-1885
- Subjects:
- Portraits
Sikhs
ethnic and religious groups