Sudama

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Garhwal (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Sudama, in elegant attire, enthroned, with his wife in a palace tower, after his return from Krishna. An illustration to a Krishna Sudama series, Bhagavana Purana.

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Categories	Paintings Hinduism Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Title	Sudama (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour on paper Opaque Watercolour Water-Colour Paint Paper Painted
Brief description	Painting, Sudama enthroned, painted in opaque watercolour on paper, Pahari, Garhwal, ca. 1775-1790
Physical description	Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Sudama, in elegant attire, enthroned, with his wife in a palace tower, after his return from Krishna. An illustration to a Krishna Sudama series, Bhagavana Purana.
Dimensions	Page height: 205mm Page width: 293mm 12/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project.
Content description	Sudama, in elegant attire, enthroned, with his wife in a palace tower, after his return from Krishna. An illustration to a Krishna Sudama series, Bhagavana Purana.
Styles	Garhwal Pahari
Object history	Purchased from the Eric Dickinson collection in 1952.
Subjects depicted	Palace Tower Throne Sudama
Literary reference	Bhagavata Purana
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. 114, cat. no. 7 v
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.549-1952

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O432966/sudama-painting-unknown/

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