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Radha and Krishna

Painting
ca. 1820-ca. 1825 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Kangra (made)

Painted in opaque watercolour on paper, from a series of fourteen paintings (oval shape with yellow margins and floral surrounds) based on the Rasika Priya (love poems of Radha and Krishna) of Keshav Das. Radha is depicted seated gazing at herself in a mirror, while Krishna watches her unseen from behind.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Hinduism
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
SCRAN
Object type
Painting
TitleRadha and Krishna (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Paint
Opaque Watercolour
Paper
Painted
Brief description
Painting, secret viewer, from a Rasika Priyaseries, opaque watercolour on paper, Kangra, ca. 1820-1825
Physical description
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper, from a series of fourteen paintings (oval shape with yellow margins and floral surrounds) based on the Rasika Priya (love poems of Radha and Krishna) of Keshav Das. Radha is depicted seated gazing at herself in a mirror, while Krishna watches her unseen from behind.
Dimensions
  • Height: 327mm (maximum)
  • Width: 230mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 247mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 156mm (maximum)
05/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape
Content description
Radha is depicted seated gazing at herself in a mirror, while Krishna watches her unseen from behind.
Style
Kangra
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed on the reverse in nagari characters with Hindi verses from the Rasika Priya of Keshav Das and numbered: 64.
Credit line
P. C. Manuk and Miss G. M. Coles Bequest through Art Fund
Subjects depicted
Deities
Mirror
Terrace
Radha
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. 306, cat. no.66 (iv). .
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.46-1949

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Record createdJanuary 9, 2003
Record URL
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