A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s5.22

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The deities, Mahādēo and Pārvatī, so often represented by sculptors as seated together in conjugal harmony, were equally good subjects for the less conventional art of the draughtsman and painter. A creditable rendering by Mohan Singh is in volume x of the Johnson collection; but the best version is that in a picture reproduced by Haughton in Plate XVII of Moor's *Hindu Pantheon*. 'The painting or drawing from which Plate 17 is engraved, is, I think,' the author writes,