Yousuf enters the city with the caravan and an old widow arrives with a bundle of string which she offers as purchase money for him

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Miniature. Yousuf enters the city with the caravan and an old widow arrives with a bundle of string which she offers as purchase money for him. Unknown miniaturist, Rajput School. One of sixty six miniatures illustrating a poem on the story of Yusuf and Zulaykha (Joseph and Potiphar's wife). Watercolour, bodycolour including white, pen and ink with gold, on paper, height 163 mm, width 116 mm, early 19th Century. Production Note: The story, taken from the Koran, was much elaborated by Persian poets, and has been very popular in India.
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