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Add Or 5261
- Record Id:
- 040-003279091
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003279088
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x00251e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100136944267.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 5261
- Title:
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Maharana Amar Singh (reg. 1697-1710) of Mewar and his son Sangram Singh (reg. 1710-34) conversing in a garden, the Maharana with attendants holding his gold hookah-base and a chowrie, with a domed palace building on the left.. Artist(s): Wajid (fl. 168
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Maharana Amar Singh (reg. 1697-1710) of Mewar and his son Sangram Singh (reg. 1710-34) conversing in a garden, the Maharana with attendants holding his gold hookah-base and a chowrie, with a domed palace building on the left.
By Wajid, c.1708.
Inscribed on reverse in ‘nagari’: ‘rana amar singh kavar sangram singh ubha chai/ wajid.’ [Rana Amar Singh and Prince Sangram Singh are standing. Wajid.]
Opaque water-colour and gold; 41 by 33.5 cm (album page), 32 by 37.5 cm (painting).
Published: ‘Images of India,’ Indar Pasricha Fine Arts, London, no. 21.
Purchased 1997.
Note: The Isarda artist Wajid must have accompanied his master Thakur Kauju Ram in the train of Maharaja Jai Singh of Amber to Udaipur in 1708, where Udaipur, Amber and Jodhpur formed a triple alliance against the Mughals.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003279088
040-003279091 - Is part of:
- Add Or 5259-5261 : Add.Or.5259-5261 Three portraits of princes of Rajasthan. By the Isarda artist Wajid, 1680-1708. Purchased 1997. Note: The…
Add Or 5261 : Maharana Amar Singh (reg. 1697-1710) of Mewar and his son Sangram Singh (reg. 1710-34) conversing in a garden, the Maharana… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003279088[0003]/040-003279091
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 5259-5261
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100136944267.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Rajasthan style
Rajasthan/Isarda style - Start Date:
- 1707
- End Date:
- 1709
- Date Range:
- c 1708
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: opaque watercolour
- Exhibitions:
- Treasures Gallery, British Library, March - June 2014
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)