A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c14.s2.89

c14.s2.89

Four smaller pictures placed symmetrically at the corners of the central square of the principal design of the roof, and all replicas of one subject, with variations, evidently have some connexion with the great embassy picture, which measures 15 by 6½ feet. The best of these small compositions has been illustrated by Mr. Griffiths both from a photograph (Pl. XCV, Fig. 4) and from a water-colour drawing (Pl. XCIV, Fig. 4). The colours of the latter seem to be too brilliant, and a more faithful reproduction by Mr. Griggs was published by Fergusson, which is here reproduced uncoloured by permission of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society (Fig. 210). Fergusson assumed that the principal personages depicted must be King Khusrū and his famous consort, Shīrīn but this attractive hypothesis cannot be said to be proved.¹