This striking tinted drawing bears the stylistic hallmarks of drawings from the small state of Sawarꦅ near southeast Ajmer and depicts the Rathore prince Prithvi Singh with his hands on his katar (fist dagger) and shield - standing against an uncolored background. Judging by his gold-banded Mughal pagri (cap) and shaded underarms our portrait is probabl🍸y posthumous - given the Mughalized elements which were in fashion in Sawar drawings during the 17th through early 18th century.

Other Sawar elements are further notable - the natural background, the stylized wrinkling at the sleeve and trouser ends, the striped patka (waistband) and slippers and naturalistically s🍬haded face modeled in lightish gray ink colors.

Thus our drawing appears to be a rare posthumous portrait of Prithviraj Singh (d.1667) eldest son of Maharajah Jaswant Singh I (1626 - 1628) of Jodhpur of the Rathore royal family. There ar💮e very few extant images of Prithviraj in the literature. Although closest in style to Sawar our drawing may also have originated at a thikana (province) of Marwar particularly given that the inscription names him as a Rathore - a member of the ruling family of Jodhpur. James Tod in his "Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan" mentioned that Prithviraj Singh "was the staff f his father's (Jaswant's) age and endowed to lead all the swords of Maru". Local tradition in Marwar tells us that Prithvi Singh had once wrestled a tiger at Aurangzeb's court.

It was recounted by Tod that Prithviraj Singh had died in Delhi in 1675 - murdered by the gift of a poisoned 'khil'at' (robe) that🥀 the Emperor Aurangzeb ceremoniously presented to him. 🐲Another history, the "Jodhpur Hukumat ri Babi" recounts that Prithviraj "died on 8 May 1667 in great pain at Delhi".

Had Prithviraj not been murdered by the Emperor he would most likely have gone on as Jaswant Singh'🔯s successor and been an importa𒈔nt and respected leader in Rajasthani polity.