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

Painting, 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, depicting a lonely mistress. A woman sits alone on a carpet on a terrace, in the background are buildings amidst hills.


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Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, lonely mistress, from a Rasika Priyaseries, opaque watercolour on paper, Kangra, ca. 1820-1825
Physical description
Painting, 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, depicting a lonely mistress. A woman sits alone on a carpet on a terrace, in the background are buildings amidst hills.
Dimensions
  • Height: 324mm
  • Width: 236mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 253mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 161mm (maximum)
05/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
A lonely mistress. A woman sits alone on a carpet on a terrace, in the background are buildings amidst hills.
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
(Inscribed on the reverse in nagari characters with Hindi verses from the Rasika Priya of Keshav Das and numbered: 22.)
Credit line
P. C. Manuk and Miss G. M. Coles Bequest through Art Fund
Subjects depicted
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 (v).
Collection
Accession number
IS.44-1949

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Record createdJanuary 9, 2003
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