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Painting

ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, an ascetic draped in a leopard skin and attended by a tiger, seated outside a cave.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, ascetic attended by tiger, opaque watercolour on paper, Murshidabad, ca. 1760
Physical description
Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, an ascetic draped in a leopard skin and attended by a tiger, seated outside a cave.
Dimensions
  • Height: 275mm
  • Width: 197mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 233mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 155mm
14/08/2013 dimensions measured as part of the Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
An ascetic draped in a leopard skin and attended by a tiger, seated outside a cave.
Styles
Credit line
Purchased from Martinus Nijhoff
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
D.1192-1903

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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