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Painting

ca. 1830 (made)
Artist/Maker
Nandlal (maker)
Place of origin
Jammu (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Radha and Krishna in a palace room, making love. Servants stand outside, and a peacock walks on the roof, and two geese below.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Religion
Hinduism
Animals and Wildlife
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paint
Paper
Painted
Brief description
Painting, Radha and Krishna making love, by Nandlal, opaque watercolour on paper, Jammu, ca. 1830
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Radha and Krishna in a palace room, making love. Servants stand outside, and a peacock walks on the roof, and two geese below.
Dimensions
  • Height: 287mm (maximum)
  • Width: 219mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 251mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 172mm (maximum)
17/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object and painted borders irregular in shape
Content description
Radha and Krishna in a palace room, making love.
Style
Jammu
Subjects depicted
Deities
Palace
Lovers
Peacock
Geese
Radha
Krishna
Bibliographic references
  • Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills : a survey and history of Pahari miniature painting / by W. G. Archer ; foreword by Sherman E. Lee. London :Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet ;Oxford University Press, 1973 Number: 0856670022 p. 211, cat. no. 72.
  • Khanna, Balraj; Krishna: The Divine Lover, South Bank Centre, London 1997, ISBN 1 85332 166 4 cat. no. 58
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.7-1956

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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