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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Gujarat (made)

Page from a manuscript with a cosmological painting on one side, showing a personification of a planet, probably Saturn.
The painting is on one side of what appears to be a Jain manuscript, but the side of the page with painting has been cut out so that the rest of the page is lost.

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Categories	Drawings Jain
Object type	Drawing
Materials and techniques	Drawing, ink on paper
Brief description	Jain cosmological painting; south-west Rajasthan or Gujarat, 19th century.
Physical description	Page from a manuscript with a cosmological painting on one side, showing a personification of a planet, probably Saturn. The painting is on one side of what appears to be a Jain manuscript, but the side of the page with painting has been cut out so that the rest of the page is lost.
Dimensions	Height: 9.5cm Width: 7.5cm
Style	Jain School
Object history	Purchased by the Museum in London in 1972.
Production	Western India
Subjects depicted	Tantra Figure Planets Saturn
Bibliographic references	Tantra, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1971 p.28, Cats.91 & 92 Van den Bergh, Joost. Tantra : Tantric, Jain and Cosmic Art from India. [London, 2010]. Cat. 33. Balbir, N. et al, 'Catalogue of the Jain Manuscripts of the British Library including the holdings of the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum'. London, British Library and Institute of Jainology, 2006. Vol 1, pp.38-39, Vol 2, p.296, cat no.375.
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	CIRC.325-1972

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Record created	November 15, 2002
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70212/drawing-unknown/

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