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Krishna and Radha

Painting
ca. 1775 - ca. 1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Krishna and Radha celebrating the Holi festival. Radha, with eight female attendants to the left and Krishna, with ten musicians and cowherds to the right, are both engaged in squirting paint and drumming.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleKrishna and Radha (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, Krishna and Radha celebrating the Holi festival, in opaque watercolour on paper, Pahari, Kangra, ca. 1775-1780
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, Krishna and Radha celebrating the Holi festival. Radha, with eight female attendants to the left and Krishna, with ten musicians and cowherds to the right, are both engaged in squirting paint and drumming.
Dimensions
  • Height: 195mm
  • Width: 274mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 168mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 251mm
05/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
Krishna and Radha celebrating the Holi festival. Radha, with eight female attendants to the left and Krishna, with ten musicians and cowherds to the right, are both engaged in squirting paint and drumming.
Style
Credit line
P. C. Manuk and Miss G. M. Coles Bequest through Art Fund
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • 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. 291, cat. no. 32
  • Khanna, Balraj; Krishna: The Divine Lover, South Bank Centre, London 1997, ISBN 1 85332 166 4 cat. no.53
Collection
Accession number
IS.8-1949

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Record createdOctober 29, 2002
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