Krishna

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Guler (made) Punjab Hills (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Krishna as a butter thief (Makhan chor), enlisting sympathy from female members of the household as Nand threatens him with a switch and his young companions flee from the scene of broken pots.

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Categories	Paintings Hinduism Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project SCRAN Animals and Wildlife
Object type	Painting
Title	Krishna (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper Opaque Watercolour Paint Paper Gold Painted
Brief description	Painting, Krishna the butter thief, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Guler, ca. 1820
Physical description	Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Krishna as a butter thief (Makhan chor), enlisting sympathy from female members of the household as Nand threatens him with a switch and his young companions flee from the scene of broken pots.
Dimensions	Height: 382mm (maximum) Width: 230mm (maximum) Image within innermost painted borders height: 256mm Image within innermost painted borders width: 303mm 26/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description	Krishna as a butter thief, enlisting sympathy from female members of the household as Nand threatens him with a switch and his young companions flee from the scene of broken pots.
Style	Guler
Subjects depicted	Thief Women Deity Krishna
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. 166, cat. no. 72
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.119-1960

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Record created	October 28, 2002
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O68787/krishna-painting-unknown/

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