Title:
A nayak and nayika scene
Creator/Contributor:
unknown, India
Date:
latter half 18 century A.D.
Identifier:
1998.42.149
Format:
Drawing
ink on paper
India, Punjab Hills, Kangra
h 8 -11/16 x w 10 -1/4
Description:
The nayak (hero) confronts the nayika (heroine) in a courtyard while walls zigzag to cut the scene into various compartments.
A man stands at a doorway in the center and a groom waits with a saddled and bridled horse outside the door.