Sultan Ali Adil Shah II in camp

Sultan Ali Adil Shah II in camp

20 x 16.6 cm

Gouache with gold on paper

Sultan Ali Adil Shah sits in camp under a canopy erected beside a mango tree. His companion may be the general Afzal Khan, perhaps reporting on a Mughal campaign against Bijapur, or an incursion by the Maratha leader Shivaji. Both men however appear untroubled.

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