A portrait like this shows changing times, a place where traditions meet new ideas. While the portrait is still in the style of a manuscript painting, things have changed: the woman is evidently not a heroine or a nayika, she sits on a chair, usual gardens have given way to a strange lawn, and the horizon is a curve. The sky too is stylised differently. The painting is from Murshidabad and dates to the 1760s and is a part of a series that documented the household of William Fullerton in Patna. The painting was most likely made by Dip Chand.

The catalogue notes that there is an Indian woman seated on a European chair, one that she wouldn't routinely be asked to occupy. However, in my opinion, the discomfort comes from being looked at and observed, isolated on a chair. Despite this, she seems to keep a brave smile.