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Dhanasri Ragini

Painting
ca. 1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, illustration to the musical mode dhanasri ragini, from a Ragamala series, a lady with a green complexion seated with a confidante, in a pavilion.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDhanasri Ragini (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, Ragamala, dhanasri ragini, lady and confidante, opaque watercolour on paper, Bilaspur, ca. 1700
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, illustration to the musical mode dhanasri ragini, from a Ragamala series, a lady with a green complexion seated with a confidante, in a pavilion.
Dimensions
  • Height: 270mm (maximum)
  • Width: 208mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 215mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 161mm
  • Paper onto which object mounted height: 301mm
  • Paper onto which object mounted width: 242mm
24/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape
Content description
A lady with a green complexion seated with a confidante.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
(on the reverse are three inscriptions connecting the object with dhanasri ragini)
Object history
IS. 90 to 128-1954 were purchased for £150, from Maggs Bros. Originally in the stock of Abdullah&Sons of Hathipole, Udaipur, and earlier in the family collection of Thakur Iswari Singh of Bilaspur, Sirmoor, now a resident of Udaipur. Iswari Singh's great-grandfather Raja Kharakh Chand was ruler of Bilaspur (1824-39). The picture was among those which fell to Iswari Singh's branch of the family on the division of the collection.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
IS.121-1954

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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