Women collecting water encounter Lord Krishna, attributed to Bhagvan, Kulu, circa 1790-1800, gouache on paper heightened with gold, Krishna, light blue, is standing holding a bow to the right of the scene, while one woman bows before him to fill her lota with water and four other stand behind, the background is an orange red and there are large lily pads and lilies floating on the river before them, in mount, painting 16.7 x 13.2cm. Provenance: Acquired from Professor Simon Digby ( 1932-2010) the English oriental scholar, translator, writer and collector who was awarded the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society and was a former Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Assistant Keeper in the Department of Eastern Art of the Asmolean Museum in Oxford. He was also the foremost British scholar of pre-Mughal India.This is one of a small series of very similar paintings six more of which, purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1952, are reproduced by W.G. Archer (Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, nos.40(i) and 40(ii)). He discusses the reasons for attributing them to Bhagvan, principally on the basis of their similarity to three other series which are signed by or have contemporaneous ascriptions to this artist.. Some losses to pigment, creases and losses to surface, the bottom left corner is missing is a rectangular section