A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.6

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The sad story of Daswanth has been told already (*ante*, p. 455). Good specimens of his work as draughtsman are to be seen in Plates XII and XV of Col. Hendley's reproduction of the Jaipur *Razmnāmah*, both of which were drawn in outline by him, and coloured respectively by Mādho the Elder and Kānhā. The subjects are Hindu legends, treated in the Persian manner, but with differences. The principal figures are distinctively Indian in feature and form, and even in the minor figures where the chubby cheeks characteristic of the Persian style are preserved, the bodies are much less elongated than in Persian pictures. The scheme of colour too is lowered in brilliancy, and indigo blue is introduced for the bodies of deities.