Maharaja Dhiraj Singh of Raghogarh hunting nilgai

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Maharaja Dhiraj Singh of Raghogarh hunting nilgai
Raghogargh, late 17th or early 18th Century

Gouache on paper, with Dhiraj Singh hunting a nilgai at full galop, standing in the stirrups, thrusting a spear, a groom running near his master's horse, in green landscape, an inscription in nagari script giving his name, heightened with gold
24.4 x 34 cm (minute flaking to blue skyline, red border with rubbing and small damage to lower right corner)
Literature
Neven, Op. Cit., p. 100
Bautze, Op. Cit., p. 52

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