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Ladvai Sketch

Painting
ca. 1750 - ca. 1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Nainsukh (maker)
Place of origin
Jammu (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, unfinished portrait of a retained singer of Raja Balwant Singh of Jammu, Ladvai Sketch.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Portraits
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitleLadvai Sketch (generic)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paper
Paint
Painted
Brief description
Painting, Ladvai Sketch, Raja Balwant Singh's singer, attributed to Nainsukh, Jammu, ca. 1750-1755
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, unfinished portrait of a retained singer of Raja Balwant Singh of Jammu, Ladvai Sketch.
Dimensions
  • Height: 132mm (approx.; estimate)
  • Width: 175mm (approx.; estimate)
  • Cardboard mount onto which object mounted; also absolute maximum dimensions of object height: 213mm (absolute maximum (object))
  • Cardboard mount onto which object mounted; also absolute maximum dimensions of object width: 175mm (absolute maximum (object))
19/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Painting Cataloguing Project 2013; not possible to accurately measure object due to the way in which it is mounted
Content description
A retained singer of Raja Balwant Singh of Jammu, Ladvai Sketch.
Styles
Jammu
Pahari
Credit line
Given by Col. J.G. Gayer-Anderson C.M.G., D.S.G. and Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson.
Object history
From the Gayer-Anderson collection. The donors were twin brothers.
Subjects depicted
Singer
Woman
Bibliographic reference
Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills : a survey and history of Pahari miniature painting / by W. G. Archer ; foreword by Sherman E. Lee. London :Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet ;Oxford University Press, 1973 Number: 0856670022 pp. 201-02, cat. no. 37
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.147-1952

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O433154/ladvai-sketch-painting-nainsukh/
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