Maharao Umed Singh hunting tigers
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Object Details
- Artist
- Hans Raj Joshi (1750-1799)
- School/Tradition
- Kota school
- Inscriptions
- Recto: in devanagari script: maharaja dhiraja maharaja maharao raja sri umed singhji bahadur his
- Courageous king of kings, great king Umed Singh
- Verso: in devanagari script: samvat 1844 vasakih sudi 14, hitvarah din ki jp dim (?) kul thak ajai nahan ghoghari mari…Joshi Hans Raj chuterako, ji ho
- Samvat 1844 (1787 CE), fourteenth day of Caisakh, Sunday…killed the…animals.
- Painting by Hans Raj Joshi
- Painting by Hans Raj Joshi
- Provenance
- To 1971
- Indian Arts Palace, New Delhi [1]
- From 1971 to 2001
- Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), purchased from Indian Arts Palace, New Delhi in December 1971 [2]
- From 2001 to 2018
- Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001
- From 2018
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim
- Notes:
- [1] According to information from Catherine Glynn Benkaim.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Life at court: Art for India's Rulers, 16th-19th centuries (November 20, 1985 to May 11, 1986)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Indian Arts Palace
- Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
- Catherine Glynn Benkaim
- Credit Line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art
- 1787
- Accession Number
- S2018.1.39
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 43.2 × 70.2 cm (17 × 27 5/8 in)
- H x W (framed): 61.6 × 86 cm (24 1/4 × 33 7/8 in)
- Origin
- Kota, Rajasthan state, India
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- portrait
- tiger
- hunting
- India
- raja
- South Asian and Himalayan Art
- Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Record ID
- fsg_S2018.1.39
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye36a5a5821-e4fe-4d12-814a-9146ce940b0c
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