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Shiva and Parvati, Ganesh, Karttikeya and Nandi

Painting
ca. 1745 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Guler (made)

Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, Shiva and Parvati with their two children Karttikeya (Skanda) and Ganesh, accompanied by their vehicles the bull Nandi, a rat, a peacock and a sleeping lion are assembled in a grey hollow. Shiva is sewing a garment as Parvati is passing a red thread through a line of heads to make a necklace.


Object details

Categories
Images Online
Paintings
Religion
Hinduism
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
SCRAN
Object type
Painting
TitleShiva and Parvati, Ganesh, Karttikeya and Nandi (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Water Colour
Paint
Opaque Watercolour
Paper
Painting
Painted
Brief description
Painting, Shiva and Parvati, Ganesh, Karttikeya and Nandi, opaque watercolour on paper, Pahari, Guler, ca. 1745
Physical description
Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, Shiva and Parvati with their two children Karttikeya (Skanda) and Ganesh, accompanied by their vehicles the bull Nandi, a rat, a peacock and a sleeping lion are assembled in a grey hollow. Shiva is sewing a garment as Parvati is passing a red thread through a line of heads to make a necklace.
Dimensions
  • Page height: 305mm (maximum)
  • Page width: 219mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 270mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 183mm (maximum)
26/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape
Styles
Guler
Pahari
Marks and inscriptions
(Inscribed on the reverse with a long note in Persian shikasta characters, dated: 22 katik, year 95, samvat 1952 and signed: raghunath singh i.e. Raja Raghunath Singh (1884-1920) of Guler. This note has no direct connection with the painting.)
Translation
'God may suddenly humble the proud and exalt the meek. What befalls is due to a man's bad deeds. The writer has always had a brave heart but of late Fate has played such tricks with him that he now has no courage left and life is one long misery. A sudden illness has claimed his wife; and then his sister, the sole surviving offspring of his parents, has also died. He beseeches God to give peace to his dead ones and grant him the only wish he now has which is to die.'
Credit line
P. C. Manuk and Miss G. M. Coles Bequest through Art Fund
Subjects depicted
Rat (Animal)
Peacock
Lion
Deities
Bull
Shiva
Parvati
Karttikeya
Ganesh
Nandi
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. 150, cat. no. 16
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.11-1949

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Record createdJanuary 6, 2003
Record URL
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