in opaque colours on paper with gold highlights, the figure depicted in profile, with bejewelled hair and henna decorated hands, within an architectural frame beneath a rolled drape, within ruled ink and gilt margins, mounted on a backing board, image 9.6 x 5.6cm.

Provenance: A private English collection

The pose is reminiscent of one found in a depiction of a woman in the Small Clive Album, IS.48:22/A-1956. The album has a number of earlier European prints of ladies and such material is the likely inspiration for the artist of this painting.