The Archangel Gabriel (unidentified poetic chronicle)
18th century
Opaque watercolor and gold and paper
H. 9 17/32 x 5 21/32 in. (24.3 x 14.4 cm)
San Diego Museum of Art, Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, 1990:1467

This is a page from an unknown poetic chronicle depicting the archangel Gabriel. Set against a layered landscape adorned with vegetation, it expresses stylistic features typical of mid-eighteenth-century post-Mughal painting. The dominant central character bears a simplified figural form that appears to be drawn from Persian, rather than Mughal, sources.