Image: Ramayana Embroidery

Rumal with Scenes from the Ramayana 

embroidery, 18th century

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

From the Museum website:
At the upper right, Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana bid farewell to Rama's mother before their exile in the forest. The middle scene depicts Ravana, disguised as an ascetic, attempting to seduce Sita in the forest while her husband is hunting a golden deer sent by Ravana as a diversion. Sita is abducted by Ravana and next seen imprisoned in his palace on Lanka (lower left). Finally, Rama, Lakshmana, Hanuman, and the monkey and bear armies cross Nala's bridge to Lanka and advance on Ravana's fortress, slaying Ravana. Returning to the center of the embroidery, Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana depart in triumph, carried on palanquins.

You can find out more about the Ramayana at Wikipedia.

Details:

Rama and his army march to Lanka

Ravana with Sita as his prisoner

Rama Battles Ravana

Image: Rama Pronounces Judgment

Harvard Art Museum

Thai Rubbing from the West Wall of the Temple of Wat Po, Bangkok; Rama Asks Sugrib to Decide Punishment for Hanuman and Nilabad; forms complete illustration with 1960.4.87

More information from the Thai Temple Rubbings website

Image: Rama and Sugriva; Rama and Vali

Rama and Sugriva;

Rama and Vali

West Bengal, Murshidabad, circa 1770-1775

(LACMA)

You can read more about Vali at Wikipedia.

Details:

Image: Rama's coronation

Image source: Rama's coronation.
Even the gods are in attendance:
you can see Shiva and Brahma in the front,
and Ganesha is also there in the back.

Image: Hanuman (from the Ramakien)

(B.J. McMorrow at pbase)

(Wikimedia)

Hanuman, from the Ramakien:
Hanuman enlarges his body to protect Rama's pavilion
Here is more from the image description at Wikimedia:
Hanuman swallows the pavilion of Ram to protect him from Maiyarap (Ahiravan), the demon king of the underworld.

Detail:

Anandajoti Bhikkhu at Flickr

From the Thai Rubbings website:

Detail:

Image: Hanuman Looks for Sita

Hanuman Looks for Sita
(Wat Phra Kaew, Bangkok)

More information from the NCPedia website:

Sequential images of Hanuman looking for Sita in the demon Ravana's palace are seen on a Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The two adjacent images illustrate how framed space is used to indicate time lapses in Thai temple mural paintings. Hanuman, the white monkey god, appears in two different rooms, seemingly at once. When the viewer moves from left to right to view the painted scenes, however, the understanding intended is that Hanuman first checked the left room for Sita, and then the right room. The right image also is painted as if it were slightly in front of the left one, overlapping it, and thereby leaving it behind in the past. In a sense, the murals move to the right much like a comic book or a slow motion version of film movies where one image follows another to convey the plot action and passage of time.

Also of interest here is the way the demons' bedrooms are depicted. The two fierce demons are both asleep facing front with their top arms around beautiful women partners. Lavishly clothed and crowned, the demons and their female consorts sleep side-by-side with their heads on wedge-shaped pillows. The couples are sleeping on cloth-covered platforms.

In the Ramayana story, when Hanuman does not find Sita hidden in these demon bedrooms, he moves on to hunt for her elsewhere on Ravana's island of Lanka. He will find her hidden in the forest.

From the Thai Rubbings website:

Details:

Image: Hanuman and the herb mountain

Hanuman and the herb mountain

(Wat Phra Kaew, Bangkok)

More information from the NCPedia website:

Hanuman climbs a mountain to obtain herbal medicine ingredients, as seen in a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. A giant white Hanuman scales a mountain about double his height to find medicinal herbs for Laksman. Hanuman's arms are stretched upward and he wears golden clothes and ornaments. Hanuman's smaller monkey troops follow behind him, running on the ground and waving their swords. Two house roofs are visible at right and the sun is covered with aqua-colored clouds.

In the Ramayana story, when Hanuman tries to delay time by physically stopping the Sun, the Sun replies that is not possible. Instead, the Sun offers to rise the next morning covered by clouds so that Hanuman has enough time to collect the herbs needed to heal Laksman's poisoned spear wound before the deadline set for Laksman's death.

From the Thai Rubbings website:

Image: Durga and Hanuman

Durga and Hanuman

circa 1760

Rijksmuseum

Image: Hanuman

Hanuman

circa 1780

Rijksmuseum

Image: Hanuman

Hanuman

Asian Art Museum

The monkey Hanuman carrying the heroes Rama and Lakshmana
Place of Origin: India, Bihar state, Mithila region
Artist: Baua Devi (Indian, b. 1944)
Date: December 14, 1977
Materials: Ink and colors on paper
Style or Ware: Mithila or Madhubani

Image: Monkeys Fight Demons

Monkeys Fight Demons

Sotheby's

An Illustration from the 'Shangri' Ramayana: Hanuman and his monkey army wreak havoc upon the demons

The monkey army mounts a ferocious attack on the demons assaulting them with boulders, uprooted trees, weapons and even their bare hands and teeth, causing a veritable blood bath.
circa 1700-1710
India, Kulu or Bahu

Image: Hanuman Attacks Demons

Hanuman Attacks Demons

Sotheby's

An illustration from the 'Shangri' Ramayana
Lanka Kanda: Hanuman attacks demons with a boulder
Hanuman advances upon a troop of attacking demons hurling a heavy boulder at them, with his army of monkeys behind him, the scene set against a vibrant yellow ground.
circa 1700-1710
India, Kulu or Bahu

Image: Hanuman Carrying Rama and Lakshmana

Hanuman Carrying Rama and Lakshmana

Sotheby's

Illustration to the Ramayana, Mandi1775
(they say it is Rama and Sita, but that does not sound right?)

Detail:

Image: Hanuman in the Grove

Hanuman in the Grove

Sotheby's

Illustration to the Ramayana Basohli or Guler, 1780 (1740), HANUMAN SIGNALS HIS PRES

Image: Hanuman

Hanuman

Christie's

A painting of Hanuman
India, Bilaspur, 1700-1720
The monkey god in animated profile facing left, wearing a green veshti and yellow sash, golden bells around his torso and a golden crown with pink lotus petals, surrounded by red borders, the verso with a collector's stamp

Image: Hanuman

Hanuman Carrying Rama and Lakshmana

Christie's

JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN,
NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

Image: Cosmic Hanuman

Cosmic Hanuman

Christie's

HANUMAN
JAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigment heightened with gold on paper, the multi-armed figure of Hanuman stands against a green landscape, within yellow and red borders with minor black and white rules, mounted

Image: Hanuman Fights a Demon

Hanuman Fights a Demon

Christie's

INDIA, MALWA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Hanuman in combat with a demon

Image: Durga and Hanuman

Durga and Hanuman

Christie's

A SIKH RELIGIOUS MANUSCRIPT
PUNJAB PLAINS, 19TH CENTURY
Manuscript in black sharada on paper, 60ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 6ll., some red verse markers, with two illustrations depicting a Sikh maharaja and Durga on her lion preceded by Hanuman, in black binding with red cloth spine

Image: Hanuman's Monkeys Fight Demons

Hanuman's Monkeys Fight Demons

Christie's

An illustration from the Shangri Ramayana, Lanka Kanda: the Battle of Lanka
India, Pahari, Kulu or Bahu, circa 1700-1710
Hanuman's monkey army vigorously battles Ravana's demons against a green ground with high horizon within a red margin, the verso inscribed "lanka"
Opaque pigments and gold on wasli