A Maiden Adjusting her Veil
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Unknown artist
Bikaner, Rajasthan,
c.1720

"With slightly-flexed, hennaed toes, she walks among wildflowers under a rose-tinted dawn"
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Unfortunately, summers are here a bit too early, but then so are the
And, wherever there's there's crowd (naturally)!
Like in this c1700 unusual & unknown poetic subject from now at

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The Bikaner style of painting is a sub-school of the Rasjasthani miniature art. It is also the closest sub-school to the Mughal miniature style. Browse through the beautiful Bikaner Art prints by Master Artist Mahaveer Swami.
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🐘 🐘 The elephant hunt, a periodic event in the life of the Indian imperial court, was intended to augment the royal stables.
Learn more:
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The Elephant Hunt of Maharaja Anup Singh of Bikaner, 1695 India (Rajasthan, Bikaner)

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A girl playing the tambur while her companion listens
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Bikaner, Rajasthan,
c.1660

"Scenes of female friendship ...may have been specifically commissioned by noblewomen, many of whom were powerful patrons of the arts"
https://t.co/8quEj6d1K6

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Nayak meet Nayika at Night?
Folio from a Rasikapriya series
Painting from Bikaner, c.1690, attributed to artist Nuruddin ay
something is amiss
can you detect?

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1. Retainer from Alwar
2. Camelry of Alwar
3. Retainers from Bikaner
4. A Jaipur horseman with a trident

By Mortimer Menpes

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Shri Ram & Sita in palanquin
probably Bikaner 1800 painting
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interesting is depiction of holy family Lord Shiv Parvati with Nandi, lion?
cant say whether it is returning to Ayodhya?

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...continuing "Strange sights are amongst the endless joys of c1680 Provincial from & auctioned by 'An Unusual Portrait of a Nobleman from the Dodiya Clan of & with a Conjoined Twin growing from his Stomach'.
Ugh!

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Raja Rai Singh of Bikaner was a favourite of Akbar and a perfect Mughal courtier- a brave warrior, a writer of Sanskrit texts, and a patron of culture. 16th c ⁦

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Lord Rama & Sita Ji in winged chariot, with Flight Security Officer Hanuman Ji

Bikaner? ~1800 CE
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