Maharana Jagat Singh Hawks for Cranes
This spectacular panoramic vista of the Mewar landscape depicts a royal hunting party in a series of consecutive vignettes, creating a continuous narrative. The aerial perspective, reflecting the plunging views of terrain offered from many Rajput forts, was an innovation of the Mewar school, perhaps combined here with a new awareness of European cartography. The rays of golden sun—the insignia that Rajput princes displayed on their standards—add a surreal if somewhat celestial dimension to the composition. This painting is remarkable for its complex topography, differentiated with imaginatively devised pictorial devices—hillocks, streams, fields—each deployed to create a landscape of the imagination. The large scale of the work is typical of mid-eighteenth-century Mewar painting, as is the likelihood that multiple artists worked on it in a palace studio environment.
Artwork Details
- Title: Maharana Jagat Singh Hawks for Cranes
- Artist: Shiva and Dayal
- Date: dated 1744
- Culture: Western India, Rajasthan, Udaipur
- Medium: Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 26 7/8 x 29 3/4 in. (68.3 x 75.6 cm)
Image: 23 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. (60.6 x 65.7 cm)
Framed: 34 5/8 × 36 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (87.9 × 92.7 × 3.8 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1996
- Object Number: 1996.100.3
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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