A double-sided folio from a Bhagavata Purana series, Mewar, India, circa 1630-40, gouache on paper, each side has a verse in red Braj identifying the scenes, folio 40.6 x 23.7cm., image 34 x 17.5cm. Provenance: Simon Digby Collection, 1998For other leaves from this manuscript see: Ehnbom, Indian Miniatures, New York, 1985, no. 49; Poster, Realms of Heroism, New York, 1994, nos 154-5; the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1980.530.1a, b); Sotheby's, New York, 22 March 2002, lot 13 and 26 March 2003, lot 120; and Christie's, New York, 22 March 2000, lot 163.This manuscript is the earliest illustrated Bhagavata that can be assigned to Mewar with any certainty. As these paintings are less complex than those done for the Mewar court during the mid 17th century, it has been suggested that this manuscript was possibly painted in a workshop outlying the center of Mewar. In style, the painting is similar to a Dhola-Maru mansucript in the National Museum of India, New Delhi, which was painted in Aghatpur, near Udaipur.Please refer to department for condition report