An illustration to a Ragamala series, Amber...

An illustration to a Ragamala series, Amber or Jaipur, first half 18th century, gouache on paper heightened with gilt, depicting a night scene of prince making an offering to an ascetic, within a palace setting, hills with a temple behind, and to the foreground a musician and the prince's horse and groom seated on the steps waiting for their master, with six lines of black Devanagari on a yellow ground above, within a gold border, painting 16.4 x 24cm.