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Maharaja Dhiraj Singh watches a nautchfront

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Maharaja Dhiraj Singh watches a nautch

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  • Description

    His duties for the day over, Dhiraj Singh enjoys a nautch or dance performance on a palace terrace. The dark-skinned nautch girl half-kneels in a kathak dance pose, her hands raised with thumb and finger joined in an expressive gesture. Verging into the picture border, her companion with cymbals and a pakhavaj drummer beat out the rapid rhythms of the dance.

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › central India › Raghugarh (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1700
    Associated people
    Dhiraj Singh, Maharaja of Raghogarh (ruled 1697 - 1726) (subject)
    probably Dhiraj Singh, Maharaja of Raghogarh (ruled 1697 - 1726) (commissioner)
    Material and technique
    gouache with gold on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 37.9 x 30 cm (height x width)
    painting 27 x 19.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.40

  • 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. 95 on p. 224, pp. 20 & 222, illus. p. 225

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