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Add Or 5570
- Record Id:
- 032-003264264
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264264
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0002c9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5570
- Title:
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An equestrian portrait of Maharaja Mokham Singh of Kishangarh (1839-41) with attendants. In the background a procession of ceremony is leaving the palace.
- Scope & Content:
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Equestrian portrait of Maharaja Mohkam Singh of Kishangarh (reg. 1839-41). He rides a huge stallion with hennaed lower half, with attendants walking with spear, parasol etc. In the background beyond the river is a procession of sepoys with cannon, carriage, palanquin, horses, elephants, camels etc., suggesting a ‘visit of ceremony,’ which is leaving the palace on the left. The brilliantly painted landscape contains further picturesque details.
Opaque water-colour on an album leaf; leaf 450 by 352 mm, with outer borders of red and blue with gold flowers; painting 416 by 322 mm.
By a Rajasthani artist in Kishangarh, c. 1832-41.
Purchased 2003.
Mohkam Singh was born in 1817 the son of Maharaja Kalyan Singh of Kishangarh (1797-1832). Kalyan Singh’s state was harried like other parts of Rajasthan by the Pindaris, and he signed a treaty of subordinate alliance with the British in 1818. His son Mokham Singh was married to the granddaughter of Bhim Singh of Mewar in 1820. Kalyan Singh became involved in disputes with his nobles and spent most of his time at Delhi; the nobles conspired to put his son on the throne in 1832, and Kalyan Singh retired to Delhi. It was returning from a ‘visit of ceremony to Maha Rajah Kulleean Singh chief of Kishengurh’ that William Fraser was assassinated (Delhi Book of Sir T.T. Metcalfe, Add.Or. 5475, f.31v).
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264264
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264264
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Rajasthan style
Rajasthan/Kishangarh style - Start Date:
- 1832
- End Date:
- 1841
- Date Range:
- 1832-1841
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mokham Singh, Maharaja of Kishangarh, 1839-1841
- Subjects:
- Animals
Horses
Portraits
Processions
Rites and Ceremonies
mammals