Two figures on a horse with one figure chasing them

1 of 8 painted hessian scenes from a story with a wooden frame. In the foreground a young man with a green short-sleeved jacket and red skirt cloth controls a horse by holding the rope from the halter and by placing his right leg round the horse's right foreleg. In his other arm he holds a young girl weraing a horizontally striped sari, who has both arms round his shoulders and is smiling. Running towards them on a path is another young man, similarly attired to the first, while in the distance servants carry an open palaquin and an umbrella.

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