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DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Details
AN ALBUM PAGE: LAYLA VISITING MAJNUN IN THE WILDERNESS
DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the scene set in a grassy landscape, surrounded by animals, a camel and its groom resting by a stream, laid down on pink card with gilt floral borders; the reverse with a calligraphic panel of 10ll. of black naskh script, laid down on blue card with gold floral sprays
Page 16 x 8 ¾in. (40.8 x 22.4cm.); painting 10 ¾ x 7 1/8in. (27.4 x 18cm.)
DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the scene set in a grassy landscape, surrounded by animals, a camel and its groom resting by a stream, laid down on pink card with gilt floral borders; the reverse with a calligraphic panel of 10ll. of black naskh script, laid down on blue card with gold floral sprays
Page 16 x 8 ¾in. (40.8 x 22.4cm.); painting 10 ¾ x 7 1/8in. (27.4 x 18cm.)
Provenance
Lockwood de Forest II (1850-1932), thence Lockwood de Forest III (1896-1949) and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1984)
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