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Equestrian portait of Maharaja Man Singh of Jodhpur, from between 1820 to 1840.  The Maharaja rides his dappled horse whilst smoking a silver hookah, held by an attendant in the foreground, where another carries a sword.  To the front of the horse - between its raised hooves, actually! - are three other attendants, two with silver staffs and one with a spear.  To the rear are two more attendants, one with a chauri - fly whisk - the other with a disc-shaped banner with concentric circles of blue and silver.

Condition: to the image there are no major flakes or losses of any kind, though there is surface wear and light staining here and there.  The borders are worn, with very slight creasing to the outermost edges, and a restored lower right corner extending 2cm maximum.  The painting has been cropped, no doubt due to damages over time, so that it no longer has its original outer border.  On the reverse, around edges are strips of gummed paper, which have stabilised the stiff paper medium.  The painting looks splendid in a frame, which is how it came to me.