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AN ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING THREE HOLY MEN IN CONVERSATION AT NIGHT
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Description
- AN ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING THREE HOLY MEN IN CONVERSATION AT NIGHT
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image: 3 7/8 by 3 3/8 in. (10 by 8.6 cm);
- folio: 13 1/4 by 10 7/8 in. (33.6 by 27.6 cm) unframed
Catalogue Note
Three holy men perhaps on a pilgrimage warm themselves near a smoking campfire as they rest beneath a tree - accompanied by two exhausted saluki hounds. A fine fragment from a larger Seventeenth Century Mughal manuscript folio, trimmed and later remounted with likely Eighteenth Century Persian borders.