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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Jaipur (made) Rajasthan (made) India (made)

Painting, opaque watercolour on thin cardboard, depicting a horse with a groom, a dappled fawn, caparisoned with gold and green harness. It stands facing to the groom on the left; the groom is young and beardless, clothed in scarlet, and holds up a white brush; the background is a curving upland, with miniature trees on its skyline.

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Categories	Paintings Animals and Wildlife Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour on thin cardboard, Opaque Watercolour Paint Cardboard Painted
Brief description	Painting, The Rasa Mandala, opaque watercolour and gold on cardboard, Rajasthan or Central India, possibly Jaipur, early 19th century
Physical description	Painting, opaque watercolour on thin cardboard, depicting a horse with a groom, a dappled fawn, caparisoned with gold and green harness. It stands facing to the groom on the left; the groom is young and beardless, clothed in scarlet, and holds up a white brush; the background is a curving upland, with miniature trees on its skyline.
Dimensions	Height: 253mm (maximum) Width: 203mm (maximum) 08/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description	A horse with a groom.
Marks and inscriptions	'Portrait of the horse of a Prince (Got, I think, in Ajmir, Rajputana, about 1884?) W. S.' (written in ink on back of object)
Credit line	Bequeathed by Lord Curzon of Kedleston
Subjects depicted	Horse Groom Trees
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IM.309-1927

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O405264/painting-unknown/

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