AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RASIKAPRIYA SERIES Malwa, West - Central India, 19th century Opaque pigments on paper, the horizontal composition depicting four consequential scenes of a Rasikapriya series, the narrative unravelling from left to right and from bottom to top, a blue-skinned male figure, possibly Krishna, rescuing a female heroine, helping her to flee the palace on a chariot and eventually celebrating their union in the presence of a female attendant and a white-clad solemniser, set within floral bands and bright red borders, mounted on a cream cardboard frame, the verso with three lines of black ink cursive Devanagari script, 27.8cm x 38cm including the mount.