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Materials:

Lightly coloured drawing (nim-qalam) in black ink with colour wash heightened with gold on paper

Size Notes:

painting; leaf 27.3 x 15.5 cm

Description:

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Markings:

signed in the margin beneath the painting, inscribed below in nasta’liq script: 'Bhima killing Kichaka together with one hundred and one brothers and Draupadi pulling [herself] from the hand of [their] associates' and the artist’s name 'Dhannu', numbered '2' in two places in upper margin, the reverse with 27 lines of small nasta'liq in black ink

Literature:

London 1999, pp.22-23, no.14. New York 2008, pp.8-9, no.2

Provenance:

This manuscript of the Razmnama was dispersed before 1960. Sam Fogg, London 1999. Francesca Galloway, London 2008. Sotheby’s, London, 7 October 2009, lot 44