A SEATED NOBLEMAN MEETING PUNDITS (BRAHMANIC SCHOLARS) North Western India, late 19th - early 20th century Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the horizontal composition depicting a Hindu raja in yellow wearing an ornate crown, seated on a low-laying cushion, handing over a scroll to a pundit and his young apprentice, accompanied by an attendant in orange holding a fly whisk, the scene set on a courtly terrace, with a blue high horizon, framed by a floral border, mounted on a cream white cardboard frame, 8.8cm x 14.5cm, 27.5cm x 35.5cm including the mount.