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Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery

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Mughal India gallery

Galleries : 132 objects

Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar IIIfront

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Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III

  • loan

  • Description

    In this posthumous portrait the Maharaja sits on an ivory chair of European design. A Victorian lamp fitting appears against the vivid green ground, itself an imported Western pigment. Having been relieved of his responsibilities as ruler by the British in 1831, Maharaja Krishnaraja (1794-1868) devoted much of his reign to devising ingenious new chess puzzles and board and card games.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › south India › Karnataka › south Karnataka › Mysore (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1870
    Associated people
    probably Krishnaraja Wodeyar III, Maharaja of Mysore (ruled 1799 - 1868) (subject)
    Material and technique
    gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 74 x 62.4 x 2.8 cm (height x width x depth)
    sheet 55.6 x 47 cm (height x width)
    painting 51.6 x 42.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.42

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 48 on p. 118, illus. p. 119

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