Lot 19
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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE RAMAYANA OF SANGRAM SINGH II: GARUDA VISITS RAMA
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE RAMAYANA OF SANGRAM SINGH II: GARUDA VISITS RAMA

UDAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1710-20

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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE RAMAYANA OF SANGRAM SINGH II: GARUDA VISITS RAMA
UDAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1710-20
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, in an hermitage surrounded by rocky outcrops Rama and Sita address three warriors after their respite and before bathing in the river, Garuda, a white stallion and an ass overlook the scenes, a yellow cartouche with two lines of black devanagari script on yellow ground above, numbered 166
10¼ x 16½in. (26 x 42cm.)

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Lot Essay

A very similar depiction of the forest home of Rama and Sita also from the Ramayana of Maharana Sangram Singh II of Mewar (r.1710-34), is in the collection of Isabella and Vicky Ducrot, (Vicky Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting: Mewar, Marwar and Dhundhar, Milan, 2009, ME. 25, p.47).

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