A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

last quarter of the 17th century

Not on view

In this early Bilaspur miniature, a king seated on a terrace and flanked by attendants delivers a rolled up scroll or letter to a messenger. Trees and sky are visible beyond the wall of the terrace, and below an attendant stands guard in an archway of the front wall of the terrace court. To either side of him are water gardens.

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Title: A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript
Date: last quarter of the 17th century
Culture: India (Punjab Hills, Bilaspur)
Medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 12 in. (22.6 x 30.5 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1987
Object Number: 1987.424.16
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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