An illustration from a Six Seasons manuscript, Maharana Sajjan Singh on horseback in his palace garden, India, Mewar, circa 1880

Maharana Sajjan Singh was sixteen years old when he came to the throne, his reign only lasting ten years due to excessive drinking. Very few paintings from this period survive due to the introduction of photography in the late nineteenth century (see Topsfield 2001, p.283).

Other leaves from the same series are illustrated in Topsfield 2001, pp.280-4; Habighorst 2011, pp.17-21, fig.5 and Bubbar 2012, pp.48-59, nos.13-15. A leaf from the same series from the Howard Hodgkin collection was sold in these rooms, 24 October 2017, lot 389 and another offered 26 April 2023, lot 67.