Painting
ca. 1750 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Squarish format painting with red ground showing Rama and Lakshman shooting at the demon Tataki, watched by Vishvamitra.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Opaque watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Page from the Ramayana: Rama and Lakshmana shooting at a female demon, watched by Vishmamitra, ca. 1750, Andhra Pradesh |
| Physical description | Squarish format painting with red ground showing Rama and Lakshman shooting at the demon Tataki, watched by Vishvamitra. |
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| Credit line | Given anonymously, in memory of Peter Cochrane |
| Object history | Formerly in the Peter Cochrane collection. |
| Production | Attributed to Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh, by comparison with a similar set of Ramayana paintings in the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, with a collophon giving the date of 1757 AD. |
| Literary reference | Ramayana |
| Bibliographic reference | J.Mittal, 'An illustrated Deccani manuscript from Rajahmundry: a hitherto unknown centre of painting in the Deccan' in 'Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Volkerkunde Hamburg', Band 15, 1985, pp. 41-62. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.233-2006 |
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| Record created | August 8, 2007 |
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