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Raja Ajmer Chand of Bilaspur

Painting
ca. 1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Bilaspur (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Raja Ajmer Chand of Bilaspur (1692 or 1712 - 1741) worshipping Rama and Sita, who are enthroned. The raja wears red robes with white striped details.

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Religion
Royalty
Hinduism
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitleRaja Ajmer Chand of Bilaspur (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paint
Paper
Painted
Brief description
Painting, Raja Ajmer Chand of Bilaspur worshipping Rama and Sita, opaque watercolour on paper, Bilaspur, ca. 1700
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Raja Ajmer Chand of Bilaspur (1692 or 1712 - 1741) worshipping Rama and Sita, who are enthroned. The raja wears red robes with white striped details.
Dimensions
  • Height: 191mm
  • Width: 282mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 160mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 249mm
  • Paper onto which object mounted height: 276mm
  • Paper onto which object mounted width: 374mm
24/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
Raja Ajmer Chand of Bilaspur worshipping Rama and Sita, who are enthroned.
Style
Bilaspur
Object history
IS. 90 to 128-1954 were purchased for £150, from Maggs Bros. Originally in the stock of Abdullah&Sons of Hathipole, Udaipur, and earlier in the family collection of Thakur Iswari Singh of Bilaspur, Sirmoor, now a resident of Udaipur. Iswari Singh's great-grandfather Raja Kharakh Chand was ruler of Bilaspur (1824-39). The picture was among those which fell to Iswari Singh's branch of the family on the division of the collection.
Subjects depicted
Worship
Deities
Throne
Ruler
Ajmer Chand
Rama
Sita
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.124-1954

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Record createdJanuary 18, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O143774/raja-ajmer-chand-of-bilaspur-painting-unknown/
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