TY - GEN ED - British Library TI - Malkos Ragini [Slides]: Lord seated on a couch receives a consort who stands before him; two maids are in attendance U1 - BL-JC CY - London PB - British Library KW - Music KW - India KW - Mugul painting KW - 1760 - 70 A.D KW - Ragas KW - Raga, Malkos N1 - IGNCA slides collection, cross reference, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library by Toby Falk and Mildred Archer (London 1981) BL-JC 262(5)(J45)5 p. 144; By Mul Chand; Faizabad, c1760-70; Johnson Album 45, nos 1-6, 8; Published: Waldschmidt (1962), 179-85; Waldschmidt (1975), 542, no.33; Inscribed on border in Persian: 'amal-i mul chand (the work of Mul Chand); Gouache with gold; border of green paper with gold rules; 107 by 66mm; page 143 by 103mm; Note: For the same composition, see nos.346vii and 348xxv. A miniature of identical composition is also in the Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam (ex. Hulsmann-Stock Collection). Mul Chand's style is close to that of Ram Sahai with whom he apparently worked in close collaboration. Like Ram Sahai he retains affinities with earlier eighteenth-century Mughal painting. ER -