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Maharaja Ajit Singh
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › Jodhpur (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1720
- Associated people
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Ajit Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur (ruled 1707 - 1724) (subject)
- Material and technique
- gouache with gold on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 55.3 x 40.1 cm (height x width)
page 31.5 x 21 cm max. (height x width)
painting 26.9 x 16.7 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1990.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1283
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Emma Dick, and Jon Thompson, Textiles Through the Ages (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2002), cat. p. 22, illus. p. 22
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘The Saving Power of Soron: Sahibdin of Udaipur and the Sukarakshetra Mahatmya’, Andrew Topsfield, ed., Court Painting in Rajasthan (Mumbai: Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, 2000)
Crill, Rosemary, Marwar Painting: History of the Jodhpur Style (Mumbai: India Book House Limited in association with Mehrangarh Publishers, 1999), fig.29
Location
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- currently in research collection
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