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Stephen Markel: Review Article of Robert Elgood, Rajput Arms & Armour: The Rathores & Their Armoury at Jodhpur Fort

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Fig. 3: Marriage procession in a bazaar
India, Himachal Pradesh, Mandi, 1640-1650
gouache with gold on paper,
13.78 x 20.47 in. (35 x 52 cm)

Lent by Howard Hodgkin, Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford, LI118.28.
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/collection.

Photo after Andrew Topsfield, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), pp. 122-123, no. 49.

Note the shopkeeper behind the procession selling various arms, including separate hilts in the lower row (see detail).

Detail