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Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, a Vaishnavite yogini or female ascetic. She wears a long robe of shell-pink diapered with gold leaves and over this a cloak of green. She holds in her right hand a peacock feather fan and in the left a conch shell. Her hair is tied back in a top-knot, ornamented with a string of pearls; on her forehead is a red tika. The background is saffron yellow dissolving into bands of white, mauve and orange, in which are flights of birds, the yogini stands on a dark green hillock on a lighter green ground.