AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: DIPAK RAGA
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments and gold on paper, at night on a terrace by candle light, the embracing couple seated on a bed, served by a female attendant presenting them with a covered bowl, a pavilion with gilt walls in the background, between gilt and silver-speckled borders, with gold-speckled blue cardboard margins, a cusped gilt medallions with 7ll. of black and red devanagari script at top, mounted as an album page, mounted
Painting 5 1/8 x 3½in. (13 x 8.8cm.); page 14 x 9¾in. (35.5 x 24.8cm.)