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MAHARAO RAM SINGH II <strong>OF</strong> KOTAH OUT HUNTING<br />
KOTAH, RAJASTHAN, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, CIRCA 1840<br />
Ink on paper, the nimbate Ram Singh II (r.1827-1866) seated on a raised<br />
platform taking aim at tigers and boars which have gathered around a well,<br />
set in a wooded landscape, with traces of a devanagari inscription above, laid<br />
down on conservation paper, mounted<br />
Drawing 13º x 21in. (23.6 x 53.4cm.)<br />
£4,000-6,000 $5,700-8,500<br />
€5,000-7,500<br />
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MAHARAJA TAKHAT SINGH OUT HUNTING TIGERS<br />
JODHPUR, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the nimbate Maharaja<br />
Takhat Singh takes aim at a tiger from atop an elephant and fanked by<br />
attendants identifed with devanagari inscriptions as Dasmat Singh and Kisor<br />
Singh on either side, set in a rocky wooded landscape with an army in the<br />
upper left hand corner and a city on the horizon beyond, inside red margins<br />
with yellow rules<br />
Painting 14 x 16Ωin. (35.3 x 41.8cm.)<br />
£5,000-7,000 $7,200-10,000<br />
€6,300-8,700<br />
Maharaja Takhat Singh (r.1843-73) was granted the throne of Jodhpur after<br />
he relinquished his claim to the throne of Ahmadnagar in Idar State. Our<br />
present work shows the infuence of photography which came to Jodhpur<br />
towards the end of Takhat Singh’s reign, (Rosemary Crill, Marwar Painting: A<br />
History of the Jodhpur Style, Mumbai, 1997,pp.172-75).<br />
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