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A lady of classic Kangra charm gazes into the glowing coals of a wheeled brazier that warms her chamber. She holds her hookah tube beneath her quilted shawl. She has been singing, and her green tanpura rests beside her. With European-inspired naturalism, the candle under its shade in the left foreground throws flickering shadows of the lady and maid on the wall behind.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 76 on p. 178, illus. p. 179
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