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Sucet Singh of Jammu

Signed by: Praga
Indian, Pahari, Sikh
1839
Object Place: Punjab Plains, India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Overall: 29.1 x 22.4 cm (11 7/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
Image: 20.8 x 14 cm (8 3/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.55
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsReverse: at top, in Devnagari: "This picture of Raja Sucet Singh of Jamu was offerered (najar) on the 8th day of Ashad, 1896"

In English: "Rs 45 Delhi/ Painted at Kagra Vellege [Kangra village] Punjab/ almost 30 years ago"
ProvenanceBy 1913, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)