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A PORTRAIT OF GARHA RAO, KING OF ELEPHANTS
KISHANGARH, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1800
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the richly bedecked elephant fitted with ropes and bells, its tusks with gold rings, its head painted, depicted facing left in a grassy field, a mahout holding an ankus on his back, a line in black devanagari script above, the reverse with 9ll. of black text in nasta'liq script, attribution and various inventory number in pencil
9½ x 12 3/8in. (22 x 33cm.)
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