Radha and Krishna

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Nahan (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting an encounter, Radha and Krishna seated together in conversation with two girls in attendance. Krishna wears a yellow dhoti, Radha an orange sari and a transparent white shawl with gold borders. From a Bihari Sat Sai series.

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Categories	Paintings Hinduism Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Title	Radha and Krishna (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour on paper Opaque Watercolour Paper Paint Painted
Brief description	Painting, Radha and Krishna encounter, Bihari Sat Sai series, opaque watercolour on paper, Nahan (Simur), ca. 1820
Physical description	Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting an encounter, Radha and Krishna seated together in conversation with two girls in attendance. Krishna wears a yellow dhoti, Radha an orange sari and a transparent white shawl with gold borders. From a Bihari Sat Sai series.
Dimensions	Height: 288mm (maximum) Width: 220mm (maximum) Image within innermost painted borders height: 205mm (maximum) Image within innermost painted borders width: 135mm (maximum) 31/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description	Radha and Krishna seated together in conversation with two girls in attendance.
Style	Pahari
Object history	From the sale of Sir Ernest Debenham's paintings at Sotheby's; bought via Maggs 2 July 1953.
Subjects depicted	Deities Lovers Radha Krishna
Bibliographic reference	Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills : a survey and history of Pahari miniature painting / by W. G. Archer ; foreword by Sherman E. Lee. London :Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet ;Oxford University Press, 1973 Number: 0856670022 p.417, cat. no. 2.
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.151-1953

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Record created	September 14, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O127739/radha-and-krishna-painting-unknown/

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