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A portrait of Maharajah Pratap Singh of Kishangarh hawking
Summary
A portrait of Maharajah Pratap Singh of Kishangarh hawking
Kishangarh, India, 1790-1795
Gouche on Paper
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, laid down on a pink album page flecked with gold, depicting a a rider on horseback with a hawk resting on his right hand, elephants with canopied howdahs, horses and a hunting lodge in the background, the fringes of a lake to the foreground filled with lotus plants and swimming fish
On the reverse, in both black Nasta'liq and Devnagari scripts:
'Maharaja Ki Raja Maharaja Pratap Singh Bahadur, Raja of Rupnagar, Kishangarh'
Date
1790 - 1795
Location
Source
Sotheby's
Copyright info
Public Domain
