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Ravat Fateh Singh and sons. Mewar, circa 1763. Gouache and gold on paper. By Jiva. Page 35cm by 24.5cm; image 31cm by 21cm

This group portrait is of Ravat Fateh Singh and princes by Jiva in the year VS 1820 (1763 AD). The inscriptions are unclear due to the top line of the main inscription having been pasted over later. The three juniormost princes’ names as Dalel Singh, Kishan Nath and Salam Singh.

Jiva also painted Ravat Devabhanji in this collection. He painted Maharana Ari Singh in 1767: Topsfield A, Paintings from Rajasthan in the National Gallery of Victoria, 1980, no.180. Other paintings by Jiva are published in Topsfield, A., Museums of India, The City Palace Museum Udaipur. Paintings of Mewar Court Life. 1990 (no. 22); Topsfield, A., Court Painting at Udaipur. Art under the patronage of the Maharanas of Mewar, 2001 (where he is described as the royal court's long established artist), figs.161, 172, 177, 181; Indian Miniatures, The Property of the British Rail Pension Fund. Sotheby's, London 26th April 1994; Lot 42.