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Young Prince visiting an Ascetic with Musicians in a Landscape (© British Library)
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© British Library

Young Prince visiting an Ascetic with Musicians in a Landscape

Artist: Indian

Location: British Library

Date: 1700

Materials: watercolour & gold

Dimensions: 32 x 38 cm

Bequest:

Review number: 3747 (1992)

Provenance:
Derihanian & Jean Pozzi collections; sold Drouot, Paris 1970; Magnus collection.

Description:
An opaque watercolour heightened with gold, surrounded by a border of gold roses in a trellis design and mounted on an album page of blue splashed with gold. Four of the figures based upon those in a study from an album of Shah Jahan.

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