Woman languid under a tree, India, late 18th century Drawing on paper in ink enhanced with pigments and gilding depicting a woman with long, wavy black hair, bare breasts, hips covered by a skirt with gold rosettes, head and neck adorned with jewelry. She lies lasciviously against the trunk of a willow tree, her hands placed behind her head. A crane and stilt-walkers furnish the sky, and the postitious date 1045 H / 1635 is inscribed on the left. Mounted on an album page with a gold-powdered border, a gold-painted floral margin on a beige background and a midnight-blue margin. On the spine, a paper manuscript folio of 22 lines of Persian nasta'liq text inscribed in black ink in reserves on a gilded background punctuated with polychrome flowers. A title in red ink reads "Histories of the birth and reign of Shah Pûr". Framed. Dim. drawing: 8.2 x 13.7 cm; dim. calligraphy: 27 x 13.9 cm Accidents, later additions including the date and probably the extension of the headdress, wear and stains on the calligraphy, marginal inscriptions.