Observe the image and answer the following question.
This Mewar folio shows Maharana Jagat Singh II (1734–1752). What does it depict?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A countryside tour on his way hawking
Option (1) A festival celebrated in the palace — Incorrect. Festivals were a favoured subject of eighteenth-century Mewar painting. This folio, however, is set in open country.
Option (2) An outsized court scene with nobles — Incorrect. Outsized court scenes were popular too, but this folio does not show the court.
Option (3) A countryside tour on his way hawking — Correct. The folio shows Jagat Singh II touring the countryside while on his way hawking, seen in an oblique view with a raised horizon.
Option (4) Zenana activities in the palace — Incorrect. Zenana activities were another courtly subject. The scene here is outdoors, not inside the palace.
NCERT (2026-27):
Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar hawking, 1744, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “Mewar School of Painting …Mewar painting in the eighteenth century increasingly became secular and courtly in ambience. Not only an increasing fascination for portraiture emerged but outsized and flamboyant court scenes, hunting expeditions, festivals, zenana activities, sports, etc., were largely favoured as subjects. A folio depics Maharana Jagat Singh II (1734–1752) touring the countryside while on his way hawking.” |
