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Add Or 5600
- Record Id:
- 032-003264287
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264287
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0002e0
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5600
- Title:
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Raja Shamsher Sen of Mandi (r.1727-1781) smoking a hookah.
- Scope & Content:
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Raja Shamsher Sen of Mandi is presented kneeling on a terrace and drawing a hookah pipe to his lips. He is accompanied by an attendant standing directly behind waving a white handkerchief and a second attendant sitting by the base of the hookah.
Mandi, 1760-70
Inscribed in takri: 'sri danpal' and on reverse: 'sri samser sain.'
180 x 207 mm
Provenance: William and Mildred Archer, purchased 2006.
Published: Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures and Folk Painting from the Collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer, 1967, no. 30.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Archer Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264287
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264287
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Pahari style
Pahari/Mandi style
Punjab style - Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1770
- Date Range:
- 1760-1770
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Shamsher Sen, Raja of Mandi, 1727-1781
- Subjects:
- Hookahs
Portraits - Places:
- Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India