Twenty illustrated leaves from a manuscript on horses, India, Rajasthan, 19th century

These illustrations were painted by a company school artist and would have originally been part of an equine medical manuscript. The manuscript is likely to have been a collection of treatments and procedures based on the Shalihotra Samhita treatise. Interestingly some of the illustrations include men in company-style uniform, with text describing one man as a 'foreigner', his flintlock musket indicating that these leaves were painted in the early to mid-nineteenth century.