Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting threshing counter stick pins spelling out HOPE

stick pins spelling out HOPE on one side

laid paper with woodblock and watercolor

holding up what looks less like a candle than a flourescent light bulb turned on the vertical

right down to his slightly off center belly button

but have not been able to determine the artist--both are signed

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting threshing counter stick pins spelling out HOPEI think really nothing beats the color of opaque watercolors used for manuscript paintings like this, just out of this world, and with gold and silver leaf incorporated here too. The subject here is the Hindu deity Vishnu, protector and preserver of the universe, here incarnate as Varaha, with a boar's head and four armed human body (conch shell in one hand, Sudarshana chakra in another, trampling the demon Hiranyaksha as he rescues the Earth. Seems