An old Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, with left arm raised above his head, accompanied by a boy. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).

The man has long hair and a long grey beard; he wears a saffron robe and carries a staff; the boy wears a saffron loincloth and carries a cloth bundle, a stick and a kamandal (sacred pot); both have smeared their bodies with ashes