1999.303: Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar Ties His Turban
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.303
- People
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Attributed to Chokha, Indian
- Title
- Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar Ties His Turban
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1810
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Mewar
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/190502
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 28 x 37.5 cm (11 x 14 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.303
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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This painting depicts Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar (r. 1778-1828) in his personal chambers. He sits, barechested, on a chair on an elevated platform. He ties a turban around his head as he watches himself doing so in the mirror that an attendant holds up. The walls of the chamber are decorated with blue and white porceilan tiles.
This painting was executed before Bhim Singh became the first maharana of the Princely State of Udaipur.
Publication History
- Anna Jackson, Amin Jaffer, and Deepika Ahlawat, ed., Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Court, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2009), pp 89, fig. 70
- Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera, A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur, Hirmer Publishers and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Washington, D.C., 2022), cat. 22, pp. 136-137, 392
Exhibition History
- A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/08/2000 - 09/03/2000
- Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 10/10/2009 - 01/17/2010; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 02/12/2010 - 05/24/2010
- A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 11/19/2022 - 05/14/2023
Verification Level
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