GUJARI RAGINI

SIGNED GOPAL SINGH, LUCKNOW, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1780

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GUJARI RAGINI
SIGNED GOPAL SINGH, LUCKNOW, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1780
An illustration to a Ragamala series, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a lone lady plays a vina in a forest glade, signed in nasta'liq in the lower right-hand corner, 4ll. of devanagri inscription above, in wide floral margins on gold ground
Painting 7 5/8 x 6 7/8in. (19.5 x 17.5cm.); folio 12¾ x 9¼in. (32.5 x 23.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

It is probable that this series of Ragamala paintings originates from the same Lucknow studio as the Johnson Ragamala series now in the collection of the India Office Library and dated to circa 1780-82, (Album 44, Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London, 1981, cat. no. 351.xxvii, p. 175).

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