AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE RASIKAPRIYA: UTKA NAYIKA

INDIA, SUB -IMPERIAL MUGHAL, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN, MID 17TH CENTURY

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AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE RASIKAPRIYA: UTKA NAYIKA
India, SUB -IMPERIAL MUGHAL, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN, MID 17TH CENTURY
Depicting a lone lady holding her left hand to feel the initial drops of rain of the coming storm, her other hand expressing a sense of perplexed anxiety, wearing a long blue lehenga and maroon choli and extensive gold jewelry, set among trees and flowering plants beside a white walled building with a covered verandah and the edge of a river in the foreground, the sky is dark an ominous with a strike of lightning in the top right-hand corner, inside gold and black ruled margins
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
6 5/8 x 4 7/8 in. (16.8 x 12.4 cm.)

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The heroine yearning for her beloved waits for him outside her bedchamber. The atmosphere is charged with passion with lightening overhead and the promise of a storm. The heroine is slightly anxious wondering what is detaining her lover as he has not appeared at the promised hour. The anxiety is tempered slightly by the pair of flowering plants which frame the heroine, promising that soon the lovers will be united again.

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