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Kamati Ragini

Painting
ca. 1700 - ca. 1710 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A ragamala painting in opaque watercolour on paper, illustration to the musical mode kamati ragini. A girl playing the vina with an attendant maid waving a fly-whisk.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleKamati Ragini (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, ragamala, kamati ragini, girl playing vina, opaque watercolour on paper, Kulu, ca. 1700-1710
Physical description
A ragamala painting in opaque watercolour on paper, illustration to the musical mode kamati ragini. A girl playing the vina with an attendant maid waving a fly-whisk.
Dimensions
  • Height: 205mm
  • Width: 208mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 153mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 157mm
24/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
Kamati ragini. A girl playing the vina with an attendant maid waving a fly-whisk.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
(handwritten in Takri)
Translation
'Karnatika Ragini wife of Sri Raga'
Transliteration
'Karnati Ragini Sri Ragedi bharaja dus(ra) patara'
Object history
From the collection of Mr. Michael Rothenstein; IS.46 to 73-1953 were purchased for £300.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
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.333, cat. no. xxi
Collection
Accession number
IS.63-1953

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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