Maharaja Raj Singh of Sawar and his elephants

Brush drawing with gouache on paper.

Maharaja Raj Singh rides in procession with attendants and a large group of elephants. The royal elephant stable is being taken out for recreation and pasture. Raj Singh rides the largest elephant, with a boy mahout and an attendant. Huntsmen beyond the hill release their hawks, which make their kills in a swooping sequence adapted from contemporary Udaipur works, for example Maharana Amar Singh hunting sarus crane and Sangram Singh Ranawat hawking seen below [LI118.76, LI118.78].

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