Click for a larger image   Guru Nanak
 
Garhwal
 
Opaque watercolour on paper
Circa 1790
21.5 cm x 17.5 cm
 
Guru Nanak sits swathed in pink robes upon a floral carpet listening to his minstrel Mardana play music on a rabab, an attendant stands behind bearing a morchal, beyond the terrace with a striped pink and blue floor lies a lake with cranes, ducks and fish surrounded by forested hills.

For detail of the lake, click here