MAHARAJA DALIP SINGH

SIKH, CIRCA 1840

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MAHARAJA DALIP SINGH
SIKH, CIRCA 1840
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a young Dalip Singh sits mounted on a rearing brown horse, wearing yellow robes and a similar turban set with gold and emerald sarpech, a shield hangs behind him, between black borders with leaf and rosette motifs and minor red rules on pink margins, areas of staining, mounted
Miniature 9¾ x 6 7/8in. (24.9 x 18.2cm.); folio 11½ x 8 7/8in. (29.2 x 20.2cm.)

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Maharaja Dalip Singh (1838-93) was the last Sikh ruler of the Punjab. He inherited the throne from his father Ranjit Singh at the age of five after a series of bloody palace coups. After the British annexation of Punjab, Dalip Singh was exiled and spent the rest of his life in England.
A portrait of the Maharaja Dalip Singh depicting him at a similar young age dated to circa 1840 is in the collection of the Musée Guimet in Paris, (inv. 39750, Illustrated in Susan Stronge (ed.), The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, London, 1999, pl. 178, p. 156

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