Portrait of Rai Rai Singh c.1610-20
13.4 x 7.0 cm (image) | RCIN 1005038.ao
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f. 41 from a Mughal Album of portraits
Verso:
Portrait of Rai Rai Singh, c.1610-20.
Rai Rai Singh (d. 1612) was a Ranjput nobleman and general in the Mughal army. In 1586, his daughter became the third Hindu wife of Prince Salim (later Emperor Jahangir). This portrait depicts Rai Rai Singh leaning on a staff as if attending a long imperial durbar cereomny and was probably used as a model to be copied for painings of large court scenes.
Recto:
Verse in Persian surrounded by gold illumination.
For further information on this album see RCIN 1005038.Provenance
From an album thought to have been presented to George IV by the Nawab of Awadh c. 1828.
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Measurements
13.4 x 7.0 cm (image)