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Painting

ca. 1920 (made)
Artist/Maker
Kanai Lal Ghosh (maker)
Place of origin
Kolkata (made)

Painting, watercolour on paper, a green parrot with yellow feet is chained up in a black cage.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Animals and Wildlife
Paintings
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
SCRAN
Object type
Painting
Materials and techniques
Painted in watercolour on paper
Watercolour
Paper
Paint
Painted
Brief description
Painting, pet parrot, by Kanai Lal Ghosh, watercolour on paper, Kalighat, Kolkata, ca. 1920
Physical description
Painting, watercolour on paper, a green parrot with yellow feet is chained up in a black cage.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18in
  • Width: 11in
Content description
A green parrot with yellow feet chained up in a black cage.
Styles
Kalighat Painting
Kalighat
Gallery label
A PET PARROT Watercolour on paper Kalighat, Kolkata By Kanai Lal Ghosh c. 1920 IS.46-1952 Given by W.G. Archer Not all the paintings produced at Kalighat were religious souvenirs. Many show birds or fish of the region. This simple image of a caged parrot was purchased directly from the artist by V&A curator W.G. Archer in 1932. By this time the Kalighat artists were no longer producing the typical paintings of the area.(27/9/2013)
Credit line
Given by W.G. Archer.
Object history
The image is one of a series of five paintings purchased by W.G.Archer at Kalighat in 1932 from the artist Kanai Lal Ghosh, a relation of Nibran and Kali Charan Ghosh. When the pictures were acquired the artists were no longer painting as the Kalighat school had ended in about 1925. (Archer:1971, p95).
Subjects depicted
Parrot
Cage
Bibliographic references
  • Archer.W.G (1971) Kalighat Painting, Victoria and Albert Museum, HMSO, London, p54.
  • Sinha, Suhashini, and Panda, C, eds. Kalighat Paintings from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2012. ISBN 1851776656. p. 72 Fig.5.5
  • Archer, W.G., Bazaar Paintings of Calcutta, Victoria & Albert Museum, H.M.S.O., 1955 p. 25
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.46-1952

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Record createdNovember 11, 2002
Record URL
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