Raja smoking a huqqa, North India, Rajasthan, Jodhpur, late 19th century Gouache, gold and silver on cardboard depicting a raja smoking a silver huqqa with elephant protoms. He is seated on a terrace against a cushion, fanned by a servant wearing a prominent turban like his master. Frame. Painting size: 29 x 21.9 cm Stains, mending, overpainting, heavy wetness, accidents, mounted gouache. Two sketches in black ink on paper are enclosed, the first enhanced with gouache, a portrait of Prince Maratha seated in an armchair, with perforated contours suggesting poncif use; the second, fragmentary, depicts a Raja on an elephant, 30 x 23.2 cm and 13 x 12.5 cm, holes, accidents, folds on the first.