

Posthumous portrait of Raja Chhatar Singh of Chamba smoking a hookah
Posthumous portrait of Raja Chhatar Singh of Chamba smoking a hookah: A man sits cross-legged on the floor. He is wearing a white robe with a red and green floral pattern. The robe has long sleeves and appears to be mid-length, and he has a yellow garment underneath. He wears a brown patterned cap. The man smokes from a hookah with a long curved pipe held in his right hand. The hookah has a red stem and a white base. He sits within an arch shape which is green with a blue and red border. There is writing in a foreign language above the arch.
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- 698 × 900 px
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