Portrait of Manya Sahib Man Rup Sagarji

An ink and wash sketch on paper shows a seated, multi-armed figure with an elephant head above a walking elephant with a decorated saddle cloth. Below, two women stand beside a hookah, and a seated musician with a drum plays opposite a standing attendant.

Look closer: The dark hookah base stands between the two women at the bottom center.

Artist

Manak

Date

late 18th century

Medium

Ink and wash on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2000 × 1364 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Subhash Kapoor, in memory of his parents, Smt Shashi Kanta and Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor, 2008