Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards Painting: 16 1/4" x 12

Painting: 16 1/4" x 12 1/4"

with one very tiny barely there sailing ship in the far distance at right in addition to the one nearer afield at left

and gave it special treatment by placing it in a really lovely recently purchased 19th century lemon gold frame that was waiting for the right thing and which I think honors it properly

Watercolor on card weight paper

and the very primitive ones perhaps by another

Smoking Hookah, Many Faces, Regal Couple: Antique Double-sided Indian Manuscript Page milton bradley flash cards Painting: 16 1/4" x 12I purchased this from a dealer in my neck of the woods, who travelled and collected extensively, and interestingly, in Southeast Asia over many years. The text here is in Hindi, though I have not managed to translate it. What struck me first was the wonderful grid of faces of this woman at lower left, a mix of frontal and profile views with some great expressions among them, looking a whole lot like strips of photo booth selfies (or an instagram