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MAHRAJA JAI SINGH III OF JAIPUR RECEIVING MAHARANA JAWAN SINGH OF MEWAR IN HIS CAMP

PROBABLY MARWAR, DATED SAMVAT 1888/1831 AD

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MAHRAJA JAI SINGH III OF JAIPUR RECEIVING MAHARANA JAWAN SINGH OF MEWAR IN HIS CAMP
Probably Marwar, dated Samvat 1888/1831 AD
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the two nimbate rulers sit against similar bolsters on a floral carpet with gold ground beneath a canopy within a tent, behind them on either side their numerous respective nobles and courtiers stand, in the foreground some sit, on either side of the tent two horses and an elephant are brought in as respective gifts for the other, with a gold and red border, the reverse with lines of devanagari identifying the rulers ajmer ke maharaja dhiraj maharaja sri sawai jai singhji maharana jawan singhji and the other participants, slight flaking in places and very minor retouching, mostly confined to edges, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature 17¼ x 21½in. (43.2 x 54.5cm.); folio 20 x 23¾in. (50.5 x 60.5cm.)

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The back records the meeting at Ajmer in samvat 1888 (AD 1831) of
the ruling princes of Rajasthan to confer with the Governor General Lord William Cavendish Bentinck. The rulers of Jaipur and Udaipur are mentioned as well as the 'Lord Saheb' i.e. Bentinck. The lists on the back are of the accompanyhing sirdars or noblemen. On the front are the names of a few minor noblemen and the servants - stickbearer and the like.

A painting of the same size that is virtually identical in every detail except for the tent being painted with floral sprays rather than left plain, and without the horses and elephant either side, was shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the 1982 exhibition The Indian Heritage: Court Life & Arts under Mughal Rule, illustrated in the catalogue of the same name, pl. 5a, no.155, p.66, and also in Ehnbom, Daniel J., Indian Miniatures: The Ehrenfeld Collection, New York, 1987, no. 78, pp.168-9.

Ehnbom notes that a panel from a velvet hanging in the Victoria and Albert Museum, very similar to those shown in that painting, was also shown at this exhibition, no.208, p.38 in the catalogue.