An illustration to the Ramayana: Vashist Muni in conversation with King Dashartha Garhwal, circa 1800


gouache and gold on paper, blue border 337 x 240 mm.
|The treatment of the stiff blossoming branches, simplified architecture and the crown types are consistent with a Krishna Rukmini series in the Archer collection. See W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, p. 85, nos. 20(i-iii).