Not currently on display at the V&A

One of twenty mica paintings depicting Hindu deities and festival processions with decorated cars.

Painting
ca.1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Procession of Ranganadasawmy in a palankeen ornamented with Flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleOne of twenty mica paintings depicting Hindu deities and festival processions with decorated cars. (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gouache on mica (mounted on paper with an 1851 watermark)
Brief description
Painting; gouache on mica, Procession of Ranganadasawmy in a palankeen ornamented with Flowers, Trichinopoly, ca.1850
Physical description
Procession of Ranganadasawmy in a palankeen ornamented with Flowers.
Dimensions
  • Size of album length: 21cm
  • Size of album width: 31cm
  • Size of paintings length: 17cm
  • Size of paintings width: 22cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Talk Drawings. Trichinopoly Exports' (Album lettered:)
  • (Inscribed with identifications.)
Object history
Transferred from the India Museum, 1879.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
4665:13/(IS) (Duplicate)
Bibliographic reference
Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 207 p. ISBN 0944142303
Collection
Accession number
4662:9/(IS)

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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