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SIGNED BY SHAYKH TAJU, KOTAH, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, DATED SAMVAT 38 / 1781 AD
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MAHARAO UMED SINGH (R.1771-1819) AND ZALIM SINGH HUNTING TIGERS
SIGNED BY SHAYKH TAJU, KOTAH, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, DATED SAMVAT 38 / 1781 AD
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, in black borders with broad red margin, reverse plain with 9ll. devanagari inscription, signed and dated, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 20 ¼ x 31 ½in. (51.6 x 80cm.); folio 21 5⁄8 x 32 5⁄8 in. (54.8 x 82.8cm.)
SIGNED BY SHAYKH TAJU, KOTAH, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, DATED SAMVAT 38 / 1781 AD
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, in black borders with broad red margin, reverse plain with 9ll. devanagari inscription, signed and dated, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 20 ¼ x 31 ½in. (51.6 x 80cm.); folio 21 5⁄8 x 32 5⁄8 in. (54.8 x 82.8cm.)
Provenance
Probably from the collection of Kumar Sangram Singh
Baron and Baroness Bachofen von Echt, New York and London, c.1965-1980
Mrs Wendy Findlay, New York, before 1985
Doris Weiner Gallery, New York, 1986
Baron and Baroness Bachofen von Echt, New York and London, c.1965-1980
Mrs Wendy Findlay, New York, before 1985
Doris Weiner Gallery, New York, 1986
Literature
S.C. Welch, India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, New York, 1985, no. 258, pp.380-1
S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London, 1998, no.132, p.173
S. Canby, Princes, Poètes et Paladins, Geneva, 1999, no.132, p.173
S. Canby, Princes, Poets and Paladins, London, 1998, no.132, p.173
S. Canby, Princes, Poètes et Paladins, Geneva, 1999, no.132, p.173
Exhibited
India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985
Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum, London; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1998-9
Princes, Poets and Paladins, British Museum, London; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University; Rietberg Museum, Zurich; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1998-9
Engraved
On the reverse, On the 20th of June 1781 C.E. (jeth vudi 14, Samvat [18]38) Maharao Shri Umed Singh ji [of Kotah and] Raj Shri Zalim Singh ji [from the] camp at Durrah […] a tigress [killed] by “Mamaji” [Rajrana Zalim Singh Jhala, chief minister and actual regent of Kota] [and] a tiger [killed] by “Shri Hazoor-ji” [Maharao Umed Singh ji of Kotah] […] painted by the hand of the artist Sekh Taju (pano Sekh Taju chutera ka hath ko)
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