Indian Mughal Art style painting on manuscript depicting an erotic scene of a couple painted in bold colors and with fine detail. Mughal erotic manuscripts achieved fame when in the early 20th century a highly unusual series of forty works was donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, attributed to the Bikaner court artist Ruknuddin and his studio, dated to 1687-1698, and depicting Mughal and other rulers in erotic postures. The series is an illustration of the interaction of Hindu and Muslim political and artistic cultures, the rulers depicted in a context associated with both the Kama Sutra, but more specifically the Ananga Ranga of Kallyana Malla, a celebrated erotic text. The Ananga Ranga also suggests the use of illustrations of sexual postures (such as these paintings) to 'gladden the glance'. Albums of such works, therefore, were designed for private consumption in aristocratic circles, in an atmosphere of connoisseurship.