Raja Bagh Singh of Aorwara Shooting Wild Boar

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Raja Bagh Singh of Aorwara Shooting Wild Boar

Datec. 1830

PlaceJodhpur, India

MediumGouache heightened with gold and silver on paper

DimensionsSheet: 12 1/8 × 15 1/4 in. (30.8 × 38.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment

Object number2018.216

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Department

Asian Art

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceStuart Cary Welch Collection; [Sotheby’s, London, “Fine Indian and Persian Miniatures and a Manuscript: The Property of Cary Welch”, 12 December 1972, Lot 1972]; [Maggs & Brothers, London]; [Simon Ray Ltd., London]
Exhibition History"Simon Ray Indian & Islamic Works of Art Exhibition," London, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed verso in devanagari: raje shri bagh sighji // mohai batta sighotai // khanp jodha: thikano auravarai (“Raja Bagh Singhji, son of Moha B(h)att Singh, of the Jodha clan [and] Aorwara thikana”)

Translated for the vendor by Andrew Topsfield, former keeper, Indian Art, Ashmolean, in 2015.
Translation confirmed by Shailka Mishra, 2017.

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