Maharana Jagat Singh Hawks for Cranes, dated 1744, Western India, Rajasthan, Udaipur, Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper, Sheet: 26 7/8 x 29 3/4 in. (68.3 x 75.6 cm), Paintings, Shiva and Dayal, 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
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Maharana Jagat Singh Hawks, Cranes, dated 1744, Western India, Rajasthan, Udaipur, Opaque watercolor, ink, gold, paper, Sheet, 26 7/8 x 29 3/4, 68.3 75.6 cm, Paintings, Shiva and Dayal, spectacular, panoramic, vista, Mewar landscape, depicts, royal hunting, party, series, consecutive vignettes, creating, continuous narrative, aerial perspective, reflecting, plunging views, terrain offered, Rajput forts, innovation school, perhaps combined, new awareness, European cartography
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