A BATTLE BETWEEN THE MONGOL AND INDIAN ARMIES
Provincial Mughal School, Northern India, late 18th - early 19th century

A BATTLE BETWEEN THE MONGOL AND INDIAN ARMIES
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE LONDON COLLECTION
Provincial Mughal School, Northern India, late 18th - early 19th century

Opaque pigments on paper, the vertical composition depicting the clash of two opposing armies on a hill-side, the cavalry engagement intense and lethal with chopped limbs and corpses in the foreground, a red-clad rider with a fur-lined hat looking straight at the beholder whilst piercing an enemy with his long black spear, in the middle ground a yellow-clad rider with a pyramidal purple turban attacking the rider in front of him on a dappled horse, holding a golden club, the background with trumpeters announcing the start of the battle, possibly a stylised depiction of the First Battle of Panipat (1526) between Babur and the Delhi Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, set within black and golden rules, pasted onto a later album page with concentric frames in washed red, blue and gold-sprinkled pink, mounted, glazed and framed, the folio 33.5cm x 23cm, 48cm x 38.5cm including the frame.

Dimensions: the folio 33.5cm x 23cm, 48cm x 38.5cm including the frame