AN ILLUSTRATED AND ILLUMINATED ALBUM PAGE: LAYLA AND MAJNUN, NORTH INDIA, MUGHAL, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY |

gouache heightened with gold on paper, mounted on an album page, with floral scrolls in gold and brown

Ex-collection Georgine Shillard-Smith (née Northup Wetherill, 1873-1955), artist, collector and the founder of the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center. She was also the niece of the artist Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill.

In good condition, rubbing, minor losses, minor stains, as viewed.
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In this scene Majnun visits Layla after having been in the desert. Layla is seated on a chair with lion-head arm-rests, wearing a flower crown and holding a book. Her appearance is very European in style, reminiscient an early seventeenth-century scene by Manohar published in Soustiel 1986, p.19.