Lot Essay
INSCRIPTIONS:
In the upper margin sri pavitra aikadasi ko uchava hai '[this] is the celebration of the Sacred on the eleventh day of the lunar month.'
Another painting of Dauji II (1797-1826) is in the Mittal Museum, Hyderabad (illustrated Beach, Glynn, Mittal, Seyller and Topsfield, Rajasthani Painting in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad, 2015, no, 57, pp.148-9). Dauji is credited with greatly promoting artistic production in Nathdwara during his tenure, employing an atelier of painters and building lakes, public buildings and a palace for himself.
In the upper margin sri pavitra aikadasi ko uchava hai '[this] is the celebration of the Sacred on the eleventh day of the lunar month.'
Another painting of Dauji II (1797-1826) is in the Mittal Museum, Hyderabad (illustrated Beach, Glynn, Mittal, Seyller and Topsfield, Rajasthani Painting in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad, 2015, no, 57, pp.148-9). Dauji is credited with greatly promoting artistic production in Nathdwara during his tenure, employing an atelier of painters and building lakes, public buildings and a palace for himself.