HARI SINGH RATHOR OF THE JOGIDASA CLAN SMOKING A HUQQA Kishangarh, North Western India, first half 18th century Opaque pigments, brush and ink on paper, the vertical composition portraying astout Rajput with luxuriantly curling moustaches and sideburns, the face painted in minute detail including pock marks, holding the mouthpiece of a huqqa, the body drawn more simply with a broad brush outline, mounted in an album page with a blue-green inner frame on salmon pink outer border, both gold-sprinkled, the verso inscribed in Rajasthani black ink nagariscript'Rathore Hari Singh Jogidosta' followed by an English note Jogidosta is a community of Rajputs, the folio 27cm x 19.6cm. Kishangarh artists were heavily influenced by Mughal art in the 1720s, when the Mughal artist Bhavanidas settled on site. Often inscribed at the back in apparent verse form, 18th-century Kishangarh paintings and drawings inherited this tradition from their Mughal counterparts. In the case of this tinted drawing, the mention of the verso goes toHari Singh Rathor of the Jogidas clan, possibly a descendent from Kunwar Jogidasji, the younger son of Thakur Vithal Dasji of Ransigaon (1627-58) in Marwar, who is claimed to be the ancestor of the Jogidasot Champawats.