2011.95: A Portrait of Raja Karan Singh of Bikaner Holding a Sword
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2011.95
- Title
- A Portrait of Raja Karan Singh of Bikaner Holding a Sword
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1655
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Bikaner
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215593
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brush, black ink, gold, and opaque water- color on paper; Rajput Style, Bikaner School
- Dimensions
- 28.1 x 17.3 cm (11 1/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Stuart Cary Welch, Jr. Collection, New Hampshire (by 1976-2011), sold; through [Sotheby’s, London, 5/31/2011, lot 16]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2011.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2011.95
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The drawing depicts Raja Karan Singh of Bikaner (r. 1631-1669) in profile. With both hands, he holds the hilt of a firangi, a type of Indian longsword. Raja Karan Singh wears a large red and green turban, pearl and gem-studded jewelry, and a waist sash (patka) decorated with flowers. Tucked into the waist sash is a punch-dagger (katar). The image has been pricked for transfer. Rajput style, Bikaner school.
Publication History
- Vishakha N. Desai, Painting and Politics in Seventeenth-Century North India: Mewar, Bikaner, and the Mughal Court, Art Journal (Winter 1990), Vol. 49, No. 4, pp 370-378, pp. 373-374, fig. 6
Exhibition History
- Portraiture in Iran and India, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/09/1983 - 02/01/1984
- Life at Court: Art for India's Rulers, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 11/20/1985 - 02/09/1986; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 03/14/1986 - 05/09/1986
- Indian and Persian Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/25/1987 - 06/21/1987
- Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part II, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/26/1994 - 03/05/1995
Verification Level
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