A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.82
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.82
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Many of the attempts to combine the methods of the West with those of the East are decided failures, as similar attempts in China have failed, but some few attain a high level of executive excellence. One such picture of good quality—a large landscape with a fortified town in the distance; a girl wading in the river, &c.—has been selected for reproduction as Plate XCV in the *Portfolio de l'Exposition des Arts Musulmans*, Paris. Another pleasing composition, fol. 221 of B.M. Or. 2265, depicts a lady in European dress with her husband or lover drinking under the shade of trees² (Plate CXVI). Numberless pictures indicate in a less conspicuous manner PLATE CXV. *Grisaille* Good Shepherd; anonymous. (Johnson Coll., vol. vi, fol. 7.)