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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 92

(x) The Major David Cecil Underwood Jr. Collection
Maharajah of Jodhpur
Maharajah Takhat Singh (1819-1873), Maharajah of Jodphur from 1843-1873. Watercolour portrait on porcelain depicting the bejewelled Takhat Singh, signed to the lower left "Johnston & Hoffmann, Calcutta", photographic studios established in Calcutta renowned for their portraits of ruling families and British officers. A dramatic portrait with a later pencil note on the reverse indicating that this was presented to an unidentified Colonel in the British Army (20x15 inches)

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