A VILLAGE SCENE Possibly Faizabad, Mughal India, 19th century Pencil and black ink on paper, the fine drawing portraying a village scene, the vertical composition with an emaciated villager in the centre holding a stick in the action of beating a robust gentleman, the attendant in the back raising his hands in a gesture to appease the angry villager, in the foreground another villager with a sword running after a cat attacking a parrot, the background with a lady cooking, trees and typical houses, mounted on cream white cardboard, the back with an old commercial sticker by Gabriel Van Thienen, Cadres & Dorure, 28 Rue de l'Enclume, Bruxelles, 21.4cm x 17.3cm excluding the mount.