Ladies enjoying themselves in the countryside, style of Muhammad Faqirullah Khan, India, Provincial Mughal, Farrukhabad, circa 1770-75

gouache heightened with gold on paper, laid down on an earlier album page decorated with floral motifs and cusped cartouches in polychrome, inscribed in black nasta'liq script in the lower border ''Portrait of Hosn-e Jamal and Pari Khanum'' and 'Portrait of Roshan Bai'', the reverse with a calligraphic panel in nasta'liq script comprising verses from the Divan of Amir Hasan Dehlavi (1253-1327) on a gold sprinkled brown album page

painting: 30 by 20.6cm; leaf: 49 by 33.7cm.