Sita, Rama and Lakshman

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Rajasthan (made)

A brush drawing, in ink on paper, depicting Sita serving food to Rama and Lakshman at a forest ashram.

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Categories	Drawings Eating Hinduism Paintings Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Drawing
Title	Sita, Rama and Lakshman (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Drawn with a brush in ink on paper. The ink is made up of lamp-black with water and a gum binder, usually gum arabic (hardened tree sap) Ink Paper Drawn Painted
Brief description	Brush drawing, Sita, Rama and Lakshman at forest ashram, in ink on paper, Rajasthan, ca. 1840
Physical description	A brush drawing, in ink on paper, depicting Sita serving food to Rama and Lakshman at a forest ashram.
Dimensions	Cardboard mount to which object attached; also absolute maximum dimension of object height: 243mm (absolute maximum (object)) Cardboard mount to which object attached; also absolute maximum dimension of object width: 313mm (absolute maximum (object)) 08/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; not possible to measure whole object, as object attached to mount (08/05/2013)
Content description	Sita serving food to Rama and Lakshman at a forest ashram.
Style	Rajasthani
Credit line	Given by Colonel T.G. Gayer-Anderson, C.M.G., D.S.O. and Major R.G. Anderson, Pasha.
Object history	From the Gayer-Anderson collection.
Subjects depicted	Deities Forest Ashram Sita Rama Lakshman
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.478-1952

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O433548/sita-rama-and-lakshman-drawing-unknown/

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