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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE<br />
RAMAYANA <strong>OF</strong> SANGRAM SINGH II:<br />
GARUDA VISITS RAMA<br />
UDAIPUR, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, CIRCA 1710-20<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on<br />
paper, in an hermitage surrounded by rocky<br />
outcrops Rama and Sita address three warriors<br />
after their respite and before bathing in the river,<br />
Garuda, a white stallion and an ass overlook<br />
the scenes, a yellow cartouche with two lines of<br />
black devanagari script on yellow ground above,<br />
numbered 166<br />
10º x 16Ωin. (26 x 42cm.)<br />
£4,000-6,000 $5,700-8,500<br />
€5,000-7,500<br />
A very similar depiction of the forest home<br />
of Rama and Sita also from the Ramayana of<br />
Maharana Sangram Singh II of Mewar (r.1710-34),<br />
is in the collection of Isabella and Vicky Ducrot,<br />
(Vicky Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting:<br />
Mewar, Marwar and Dhundhar, Milan, 2009, ME.<br />
25, p.47).<br />
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A MEWARI RULER PERFORMING PUJA<br />
MEWAR, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, MID 19TH CENTURY<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper,<br />
the large ruler in diaphanous attire and richly<br />
bejewelled reclining on a bolster, his retinue<br />
seated and standing around him, two priests<br />
and a smaller group of worshippers attend the<br />
ceremony facing an altar of Krishna on a terrace<br />
overlooking a river, in gold foral margins reserved<br />
on blue ground, within gold and white rules and<br />
red borders<br />
15 x 19Ωin. (38.2 x 49.5cm.)<br />
£5,000-7,000 $7,200-10,000<br />
€6,300-8,700<br />
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