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[RAS 053.003] Layla and Majnun


[RAS 053.003] Layla reading to Majnun who sits under a tree by a lotus pool, ca. 1720-40.

Gouache on paper, 12 x 7 cm, mounted on an album page surrounded with three bands of gold and blue floral decoration.

Formerly in the collection of Major-General John Staples Harriott.