Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (34.6 × 24.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, lower center: "To be put on the top of the head of the horse | This ornament and feather was made a | present of by Mahdjee Scindia to the | Peshwa 1793."; inscribed on mount now removed: "Kulghee | or | Ornament for a Horses forehead"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
Publications:
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 24, no. 16, V2359 (YCBA)