RAMA AND LAKSHMANA FIGHTING THE ELEPHANT-DEMON Malwa School, West Central India, 18th century Opaque pigments on paper, the horizontal composition depicting a blue-skinned and heavily bejewelled Rama, attacking the elephant-demon and forcibly removing his blood-drenched tusk, accompanied by his brother Lakshmana, wearing a red lungi, the trampled man laying in the foreground the anthropomorphic form of the demon, the traditional architecture boasting arches, chhajjas and pillars, the background decorated with lush large green trees, set within a burgundy-coloured border, mounted on a cream-coloured cardboard frame, 25.8cm x 32cm.  The horizontal composition, the use of bold primary colours, the 2-dimensional effect of the painted figures and lastly, the black pompoms hanging from Rama and Lakshmana's forearms are all quintessential elements of the Malwa school of painting and still echoes the 17th-century Rasikapriya illustrations.