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Shiva Panchanan

Painting
ca. 1890 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in watercolour and tin alloy on cardboard, Shiva Panchanana (five-headed). He wears a tiger-skin and each of his faces is a different colour.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleShiva Panchanan (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in watercolour and tin alloy on cardboard
Brief description
Painting, Shiva Panchanana, watercolour and tin alloy on cardboard, Kalighat, Kolkata, ca. 1890
Physical description
Painting, in watercolour and tin alloy on cardboard, Shiva Panchanana (five-headed). He wears a tiger-skin and each of his faces is a different colour.
Dimensions
  • Height: 137mm
  • Width: 86mm
12/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013.
Content description
Shiva Panchanana (five-headed).
Style
Marks and inscriptions
(inscribed in Bengali )
Translation
[subject's name]
Transliteration
'...mahadeb'
Object history
Rawson, Philip S., Hayward Gallery and Arts Council of Great Britain. Tantra. Hayward Gallery, London 30 September-7 November 1971. London, Arts Council of Great Britain, [1971]. p.98 no. 503.

Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
IS.268-1961

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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