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Chaitanya as Rama and Krishna

Painting
ca. 1885 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Chaitanya as a partial incarnation of Rama and Krishna.


Object details

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Object type
TitleChaitanya as Rama and Krishna (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, Chaitanya as Rama and Krishna, opaque watercolour on paper, Kalighat, Kolkata, ca. 1885
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Chaitanya as a partial incarnation of Rama and Krishna.
Content description
Chaitanya as a partial incarnation of Rama and Krishna.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
(handwritten on object)
Translation
'the six armed'
Transliteration
'shara bhuja'
Object history
Acquired from Miss M Steele as part of the collection inherited from her mother, a scholar in Sanskrit at Cambridge in 1894. When delivering the pictues, Miss Steele reported that her grandmother had also lived in India for some time and that it was possible that the pictures were originally collected by her.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Archer, W G: 'Kalighat Paintings', V&A, 1971, p69, 25xv
Collection
Accession number
IS.548-1950

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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