Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery
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Maharana Amar Singh of Mewar at the Eklingji temple
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Description
Amar Singh II attends worship at the temple of Eklingji, a form of Shiva and the ancestral deity of the Mewar rulers.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Udaipur (place of creation)Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › Eklingji (subject)
- Date
- c. 1705
- Associated people
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Amar Singh, Maharana of Mewar (ruled 1698 - 1710) (subject)probably Amar Singh, Maharana of Mewar (ruled 1698 - 1710) (commissioner)
- Material and technique
- gouache with gold and silver on paper
- Dimensions
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page 47.5 x 54.4 cm sight size (height x width)
painting without border 44.6 x 51.2 cm sight size (height x width)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the MLA/V&A Fund and the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, 1989.
- Accession no.
- EA1989.40
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Further reading
Topsfield, Andrew, Indian Paintings from Oxford Collections, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum in association with the Bodleian Library, 1994), no. 22 on p. 50, p.6 & p. 50, illus. p. 51
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Rajasthani Painting: Its Study and Scope’, Andrew Topsfield, ed., Court Painting in Rajasthan (Mumbai: Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, 2000), p. 5, illus. p. 6 fig. 5
Location
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- currently in research collection
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