Lot 274*
An illustration from a Ragamala series: Ramkari Ragini, depicting a prince begging forgiveness from a maiden on a palace terrace Murshidabad, circa 1760-70
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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An illustration from a Ragamala series: Ramkari Ragini, depicting a prince begging forgiveness from a maiden on a palace terrace
Murshidabad, circa 1760-70
Murshidabad, circa 1760-70
gouache and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with ivory borders and margins ruled in gold
230 x 190 mm. with borders
230 x 190 mm. with borders
Footnotes
Provenance
Christie's, Islamic, Indian, Southeast Asian Manuscripts, Miniatures and Works of Art, 4th July 1985, lot 170 (illustrated).
With Eyre & Greig, London, 1987.
Private collection, Virginia, USA, 1987-2013.
With Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch: see Indian Painting, 1580-1850, New York 2013, p. 42, no. 22.
For a very similar painting depicting Ramkari ragini in the British Library (Add. Or. 7), see J. P. Losty, L. Y. Leach, Mughal Paintings from the British Library, Indar Pasricha Fine Arts, London, n.d., no. 22; see also T. Falk, M. Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London 1981, no. 368 (iv). This (and our painting is closely related) was one of a group of thirty-six paintings originally collected by Sir Elijah Impey, of which eight are in the British Library, and others in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. (For an example of the series in the V and A (IS 71.1954), see Arts of Bengal: the Heritage of Bangladesh and Eastern India, London 1979, no. 77). In the Impey example, the maiden has turned her face away from the prince, and there is also a female attendant. For the ragamala subject, see K. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel 1973, nos. 195-197.