Lot 74
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MAHARAJA RANBIR SINGH AND A COURTIER AT WORSHIP
MAHARAJA RANBIR SINGH AND A COURTIER AT WORSHIP

JAMMU, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1880

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MAHARAJA RANBIR SINGH AND A COURTIER AT WORSHIP
JAMMU, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1880
Opaque pigments on paper heightened with gold, the two rulers richly attired, Ranbir Singh bearing a sword, depicted standing and worshipping an icon of Vishnu and Lakshmi, with Garuda at their feet, within gold and black borders on wide pink borders, mounted
13½ x 17½in. (34.4 x 44.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

A closely related portrait of Maharaja Ranbir Singh of Jammu and Kashmir (r.1857-1885) with the same courtier is dated by Falk and Archer to circa 1880 (Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London, 1981, no.558). This portrait series of Ranbir Singh was probably based on a photograph taken of the Maharaja by Bourne and Shepherd at the Delhi Durbar of Lord Lytton in January 1877.

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