BILASPUR, PUNJAB HILLS, INDIA, CIRCA 1670-80

This illustration relates to a group from the Mahabharata produced at the court in Bilaspur. A closely related illustration is in the San Diego Museum of Art (inv. 1990.1147) and two further illustrations are published in W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, volume II, Oxford, 1973, p.170, pls. 5(i) and 5(ii). The painting appears to be unfinished and we see pencil outlines of trees and vegetaion on the right hand side of the page.