Wife of Sayaji Rao Gaekwad II, Rajah of Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Beauty in an embroidered sari with diaphanous sash over her bare breasts, holding a fan, a parrot on her shoulder. Baroda, Femme du Rajah. After an illustration by Reginald Heber, Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India. Handcoloured stipple engraving on steel by Choubard after an illustration by Leopold Massard and Ferdinand Wachsmuth from Collection de portraits et costumes des differens peuples qui habitent les cinq parties du monde, Armand-Aubree, Paris, 1837.

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