A lion hunting scene, Property from a Private London Collection, Provincial Mughal School, Northern India, 19th century, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting a lion hunting scene, the main hunter in the middle ground, dark-skinned, with a white turban and seated on a dappled grey horse, ready to strike his final blow to the bleeding lion attacking one of the attendants in the foreground, all the other hunters gathering around the lion in a strong centripetal motion, holding up their swords set to hit, the hilly and rocky landscape in the background animated by a variety of animals attempting to get to safety, the composition reminiscent of Persian Timurid and early Mughal paintings exploiting different shades of green for the natural elements and of purple for the gibbous rocky formations, set within red rules and gold-highlighted light blue borders, pasted on a later album page decorated with a repeating grid of yellow flowers, the recto with 13ll. of black ink nasta'liq script on gold-sprinkled paper, the text an account of government official's dealing with foreign functionaries, set within gold-highlighted red borders, mounted, glazed and framed, the album page 34cm x 26cm, 46.5cm x 38.8cm including the frame.

Dimensions: the album page 34cm x 26cm, 46.5cm x 38.8cm including the frame