Guru Nanak and Bhai Mardana in a landscape, India, Provincial Mughal, second half 18th century

gouache with gold on paper, each figure identified on picture area as "Baba Nanak" and "Mardana", laid down on an album page with inner red borders decorated with gold scrolls, narrow outer plain cream borders

In overall good condition, colours bright, some minor discoloration in sky and a little in the river, some paint retouching possibly around the halo and near Guru Nanak's hand, the external edges with some minor discoloration and ware as consistent with the external border, set with later margined borders, mounted and framed, reverse blank with old collector notes and numbers, as viewed.
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Guru Nanak (d.1539) was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the Ten Sikh Gurus. Mardana was the first and among the most faithful followers of Guru Nanak.