Archival Note Card | 1500 Series - #20

Crowd of faces and arms on one figure, with a red mask at the center.

This archival note card from the 1500 series. It is archival paper. Many Indian miniatures draw on the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the stories of Krishna, which painters in several courts and regions returned to again and again. Portrait-format card with a red-faced figure holding a mace, flag and lotus staff, arms fanning out in rows. Animal heads in green, white and gold stack above, and a small sun face glows at the upper left against a taupe ground. It is 5 inches long and 7 high.

Plenty of hands, none of them idle.