A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.95
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.95
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c20.s2.95
A favourite subject was the story of Bāz Bahādur, king of Mālwā, and his lady-love, Princess Rūpmatī, who are represented in several pictures as riding together by torchlight. A good example in the Calcutta Art Gallery has been reproduced in Plate LXIV of Mr. Havell's *Indian Sculpture and Painting*; another, in Mr. C. Hercules Read's rich collection, is of special value because of the label indicating the subject; and a third is on folio 22 of B.M. Add. 21928. Other romances frequently illustrated are the tales of Laila and Majnūn, Khusrū and Shīrīn, and Kāmrūp and Kāmtā.