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Raja Dip Chand of Bilaspur

Painting
ca. 1660 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Bilaspur (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Raja Dip Chand (1650-1667) of Bilaspur (Kahlur), listening to musicians. The raja is smoking a huqqa and is attended by a servant with a fan.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Royalty
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitleRaja Dip Chand of Bilaspur (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paint
Paper
Painted
Brief description
Painting, Raja Dip Chand of Bilaspur, opaque watercolour on paper, Bilaspur, ca. 1660
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Raja Dip Chand (1650-1667) of Bilaspur (Kahlur), listening to musicians. The raja is smoking a huqqa and is attended by a servant with a fan.
Dimensions
  • Height: 252mm (maximum)
  • Width: 315mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 199mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 271mm (maximum)
  • Paper onto which object mounted height: 280mm
  • Paper onto which object mounted width: 340mm
24/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape
Content description
Raja Dip Chand (1650-1667) of Bilaspur (Kahlur), listening to musicians.
Style
Bilaspur
Marks and inscriptions
  • (inscribed in Persian on border, crossed through)
    Transliteration
    'Sri Maharaja Dip Chand Wali Mulk Kahlor Bilaspur'
  • (inscribed in Persian on border)
    Transliteration
    'Taswir Raja Dip Chand'
  • (inscribed in Persian on reverse)
    Transliteration
    'Taswir ki raja Chamba ki... huhi [unclear] hai'
Object history
IS. 90 to 128-1954 were purchased for £150, from Maggs Bros. Register note: 'Originally in the family collection of Thakur Iswari Singh of Bilaspur-Sirmoor, now residing at Udaipur, Rajasthan. Iswari Singh's great-grandfather Raja Kharakh Chand was ruler of Bilaspur (1824-39). The picture was among those which fell to Iswari ISngh's branch of the family on the division of the collection. It was stated by Iswari Singh to be a portrait of Dhan Chand Kaluria, brother of Raja Ajmir Chand. The inscription, however, clearly connects it with Raja Dip Chand, grandfather of Ajmir Chand. Hutchinson and Vogel make it clear that Dhan Chand was not a brother of Ajmir Chand, but uncle. The picture has been folded several times and the Persian inscriptions are on a later mount.'
Subjects depicted
Ruler
Musicians
Huqqa
Dip Chand
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.120-1954

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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