
ca. 1800 - ca. 1820
Unknown
SSEA
An opaque watercolour on paper depicting an elaborate scene. Bhishma in a pale yellow wrap sleeps inside the palace and has three attendants beside him. In the rooms around him all except one of them has women sleeping. Outside the walls of the palace are tents inside which men are sleeping. This is an illustration to a Mahabharata series.
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