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Description: | The Raja's green costume is Hindu because it fastens under the left arm. He wears an elaborate turban and the 'katar' (stabbing dagger for hand-to-hand combat) in his waist band, a pink sash decorated with flowers at the ends.. His servant wearing white, holding the Rajah's sword, is shown on a suitably small scale in the background. The black-buck is considered sacred by the Hindus and here the Raja is shown exercising his tame buck. It is large and robust. Wearing bells tied around its girth and chest, it prances forward with its long antlered head tilted back. The background of the image consists of a large hill, broken by tufts of grass, and lined with trees. The top of the hill is unseen, reaching above the top of the picture plain. Description Source: Lorna Hards | Subjects: | painting visual work painting miniature | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=849... | Go to resource |
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