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Maharana Amar Singh with his ladiesfront

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Maharana Amar Singh with his ladies

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  • Description

    Maharana Amar Singh (r.1698-1710) enjoys the company of his ladies while smoking his hookah, in three successive scenes representing the pastimes of a single festive day. Above, he watches a nautch girl dancing in an arcaded hall; in the centre he joins the ladies bathing in a palace pool; below, he accompanies them as they gather rose-petals, used in making rose-water, in the Gulab Bari rose-garden.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Udaipur (place of creation)
    Date
    1708 - 1710
    Associated people
    Amar Singh, Maharana of Mewar (ruled 1698 - 1710) (subject)
    Material and technique
    gouache with gold on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 50.4 x 31.4 x 1.6 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 41.3 x 22.4 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.23

  • 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. 98 on p. 230, p. 20, illus. p. 231

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