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Not currently on display at the V&A

Painting

ca. 1840 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An opaque watercolour on paper depicting a Sikh nobleman in a chair. Dressed in white coat and turban, with yellow scarf and orange-red trousers, sitting in a black chair. He holds a long sword in a green scabbard, facing left, with a black shield on his back. On the floor a white carpet with large floral patterns in green, blue and red, blue surround, white archway. To the rear a grey wall with door - a grey blind tied up above it and belong it a pale blue background.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, prince in Sikh costume seated on chair, Sikh, Punjab Plain, ca. 1840
Physical description
An opaque watercolour on paper depicting a Sikh nobleman in a chair. Dressed in white coat and turban, with yellow scarf and orange-red trousers, sitting in a black chair. He holds a long sword in a green scabbard, facing left, with a black shield on his back. On the floor a white carpet with large floral patterns in green, blue and red, blue surround, white archway. To the rear a grey wall with door - a grey blind tied up above it and belong it a pale blue background.
Dimensions
  • Height: 264mm (maximum)
  • Width: 188mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 246mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 169mm (maximum)
27/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of Lady Rothenstein and Art Fund
Object history
Previously in the Rothenstein Collection.
Production
Sikh
Bibliographic reference
Paintings of the Sikhs / W.G. Archer. London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1966 p. 146, cat. no. 24, fig. 51.
Collection
Accession number
IS.192-1951

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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