Portrait of Balwant Singh of Jammu
Item Overview
- Title
- Portrait of Balwant Singh of Jammu
- Place of Origin
- India
- Collection
- AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
- Program
- Modern Endangered Archives Program
Notes
- Description
- The illustration shows a portrait of Raja Balwant Singh of Jammu. Balwant Singh is dressed in yellow chinese mandarin robe covered with a design of dragons. The Takri inscription in gold on the top reads "Taswir Raja Balwant Singh urandhat dai baratha. Haran agalana" which means "Portrait of Raja Balwant Singh when he was seated on the verandah. The attendant Haran is standing in front."
- Contents note
- This object was a part of the Sir Cowasji Jehangir collection in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India at the time of photography. The painting was made around 1750 CE on paper. It has been painted in Pahari painting style in India. The collection is now dispersed and the current location of the object is not known.
Physical Description
- Dimensions
- Not available
Keywords
- Genre
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject Geographic
- Mumbai, Maharashtra (India)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
illuminated manuscripts
miniature painting
Find This Item
- Repository
- American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Art and Archaeology, Gurugram, Haryana, India
- Local Identifier
- 17123
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1rn8xbz
- Archival Collection
- Box 1.89
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Rights Holder
- caa.archives@aiis.edu.in
- Funding Note
- Digitization for the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides Collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.