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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Mewar (made) India (made)

Drawing, ink on paper, depicting a ruler watching a fight between two rams from a balcony, surrounded by several attendants.

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Categories	Drawings Animals and Wildlife Paintings Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Drawing
Materials and techniques	Drawn and painted with brush, in ink on paper Ink Paper Drawn Painted
Brief description	Brush drawing, ram fight, ink on paper, India, possibly Mewar, ca. 1740
Physical description	Drawing, ink on paper, depicting a ruler watching a fight between two rams from a balcony, surrounded by several attendants.
Dimensions	Cardboard mount onto which object attached; also absolute maximum dimensions of object height: 375mm (absolute maximum (object)) Cardboard mount onto which object attached; also absolute maximum dimensions of object width: 251mm (absolute maximum (object)) 05/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; not possible to accurately measure object due to the way in which it is mounted
Content description	A ruler watching a fight between two rams from a balcony, surrounded by several attendants.
Style	Mewar
Credit line	Given by Colonel T.G. Gayer-Anderson, C.M.G., D.S.O. and Major R.G. Anderson, Pasha.
Object history	From the Gayer-Anderson collection.
Subjects depicted	Rams Ruler Balcony Servants
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.471-1952

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O433377/drawing-unknown/

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