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Illustration for the Story of Layla and Majnuncirca 1770

Not on view

Ink drawing on tan paper with multiple figures in a narrative scene: emaciated male figure faces three women on a platform below a rocky ridge where robed elders converse beneath a domed canopy

Unknown, Illustration for the Story of Layla and Majnun, circa 1770, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker: Unknown
Title: Illustration for the Story of Layla and Majnun
Place Made: India, Rajasthan, Bundi
Date Made: circa 1770
Medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 5 in. (15.87 x 12.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Paul F. Walter
Accession Number: M.79.191.4
Classification: Drawings
Collecting Area: South and Southeast Asian Art
Selected Bibliography: Pauwels, Heidi Rika Maria. Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India: Poetry and Paintings from Keshangarh. Berlin: EB-Verlag, 2015.