Lot Essay
A Ragamala painting expressing a musical mode. Maohumadhavi Ragini is "The lady who flees the monsoon lightning". The Persian inscription above says "Picture of a beauty frightened by lightning".
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PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, CIRCA 1760
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MAOHUMADHAVI RAGINI
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, CIRCA 1760
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the girl in a darkened landscape with lightning in the sky fleeing into a lit interior, mounted on a later album page, slight wear
Folio 5 7/8 x 4in. (15 x 10cm.)
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, CIRCA 1760
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the girl in a darkened landscape with lightning in the sky fleeing into a lit interior, mounted on a later album page, slight wear
Folio 5 7/8 x 4in. (15 x 10cm.)
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