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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: BHAIRAVA RAGA
Lot 19

AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: BHAIRAVA RAGA

MURSHIDABAD, BENGAL, NORTH EAST INDIA, CIRCA 1755

Closed25 May 2017

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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: BHAIRAVA RAGA
MURSHIDABAD, BENGAL, NORTH EAST INDIA, CIRCA 1755
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a lord ointed by a lady at night on a dais, a servant to their side, gold nasta'liq script above
Painting 9 ¼ x 5 7/8in. (23.5 x 15cm.); folio 10 7/8 x 6 ¾in. (27.8 x 17.3cm.)

Private Collection, UK prior to 1963
with Peter Blohm

Specialist note

This folio comes from the same Ragamala series as the following lot. Four other paintings from the series were in the collection of Mrs. D’Arcy Hart (published in Robert Skelton, ‘Murshidabad Painting’, Marg, Vol. X, 1956, nos.4 and 5, p.13).