This is a humorous image of a European nobleman holding a falcon on his gloved right hand. He wears a curiously stylized hat with feathers and ta🎐ssels and a blue waistcoat over his ﷽transparent white jama and tall embroidered boots. His head tilts exaggeratedly and his mustache is far too long. He bears a dagger in his sash and holds a long straight sword in his left hand. He stands, almost as if dancing, against a flat mossy-green landscape, curving up to a cloudy blue sky.

Oꩵur present charming miniature is a copy of earlier Rajasthani compositions of the same subject - one of which was sold at Sotheby's London, 9th October 2013, lot 209, listed there as mid-Eighteenth Century and from Bundi or Kotah. The subject depicts the trope of the faranghi - an uncouth foreigner ꧋in the eyes of the native Indians - as an object of absurdity, ridicule and low morality. For other, earlier versions of the same subject see Christies New York, 3rd October 1990 lot 24 (as probably Devgarh) and Sotheby's New York, 2nd June 1992, lot 333.