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Shiva, Parvati and Nandi

Painting
ca.1855 - ca. 1860 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour and tin alloy on paper, Shiva and Parvati mounted on Nandi, the bull.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleShiva, Parvati and Nandi (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour and tin alloy on paper
Brief description
Painting, Shiva and Parvati mounted on Nandi, opaque watercolour and tin alloy on paper, Kalighat, Kolkata, ca. 1855-1860
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour and tin alloy on paper, Shiva and Parvati mounted on Nandi, the bull.
Dimensions
  • Height: 360mm (maximum)
  • Width: 371mm (maximum)
  • Card onto which object mounted height: 379mm
  • Card onto which object mounted width: 291mm
15/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape.
Content description
Shiva and Parvati mounted on Nandi, the bull.
Style
Credit line
Given by Rudyard Kipling Esq., Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex
Object history
Part of an album, containing 196 prints, paintings and pen and pencil drawings together with 37 loose pages of paintings, calligraphic drawings, and outline pen drwings. The album was collected by late J. Lockwood Kipling when he was Principal of the Mayo School of Art, Lahore. The album was presented to the Museum by his son Rudyard Kipling in 1917.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Archer, W.G., BazaarPaintings of Calcutta the Style of Kalighat, Victoria & Albert Museum, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1953, pp.22-23. Archer, W.G., Kalighat Paintings a Catalogue and Introduction, Victoria & Albert Museum, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1971, pp.49-51. SBN 11 290029 1
Collection
Accession number
IM.2:75-1917

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Record createdMay 19, 2006
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