Collection of William P. Wood (1927-96), President of the Philadꦬelphia 🧜Museum of Art from 1976-1980, acquired in India with Stuart Cary-Welch in 1957.

Two royal lovers - a nayika and a nayaka - face one another before turreted pavilions accompanied by 𒐪handmaidens. She offers him a sꦿmall cup of intoxicating liquor and he (the personification of Maharaja Man Singh of Jodhpur (r.1804-43) holds out a small pink

blossom. In the hills beyond, a tiger and an elephant eye one another - the elephant with his trunk upraised. Peacocks caw. The evening sky above turning dark blue and turbulent with swirling gold-tinged clouds. The monsoon has arrived as its rainwaters pour from makara-head spouts on the rooflines of the pavilions - water cascades downhill from the m💮ountains to feed the silver river.

An illustrated folio from a Baramasa series (the songs 🦩of the seasons). Another Baramasa painting depicting the month of Jyeshtha (May-June) in⛎ the British Museum (accession no. 1999,1202,0.5.6) contains text which may be translated to:

"The sun is so bright and scorching that the five elements. Air,ꦯ water, sky, earth and fire have become one and is as hot as fire. The roads are deserted and the tanks are parched dry. Seeing that, theelephants do not venture out. The cobra and lions sleep inside shelter in this weather. Powerful creatures become weak in this season and the whole world is at unrest".

Th⭕e poet Keshavdas said that "the elders are of the opinion that one should not venture outdoors in this season". From a translation from the Baramasa of Keshavdas by V. P. Dwivedi, Baramasa. The Song of Seasons in Literature and Art, 1980.

Another later version of the month of Jyeshth𝐆a is in the British Museum, London, accession n𒁃o. 1940,0713,0.4. Another example of this month of the Baramasa was sold in these rooms, 15th March 2017, lot 287 (which includes the above translation).