Krishna and Balarama

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Garhwal (made)

Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Krishna conferring with Balarama. Illustration to a Krishna Rukmini series. They are under a white canopy fringed with red bands and supported by red poles; a garden backed by a wall and turrets is in the background.

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Categories	Paintings Hinduism Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Title	Krishna and Balarama (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour on paper Opaque Watercolour Paper Paint Painted
Brief description	Painting, Krishna confers with Balarama, illustration to Krishna Rukmini series, opaque watercolour on paper, probably Garhwal, ca. 1780-1790
Physical description	Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Krishna conferring with Balarama. Illustration to a Krishna Rukmini series. They are under a white canopy fringed with red bands and supported by red poles; a garden backed by a wall and turrets is in the background.
Dimensions	Page height: 170mm (maximum) Page width: 253mm (maximum) Image within innermost painted borders height: 160mm Image within innermost painted borders width: 243mm 12/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project; object irregular in shape.
Subjects depicted	Canopy Garden Deities Radha Krishna Balarama
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. 117, cat. no. 20 (iii)
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.172-1949

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O433025/krishna-and-balarama-painting-unknown/

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