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Painting

ca. 1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, two tigers with raised tails confront a startled buck.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, tigers advancing on a buck, opaque watercolour on paper, Bundi, ca. 1850
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, two tigers with raised tails confront a startled buck.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 147mm
  • Image width: 160mm
  • Page paper onto which image mounted height: 255mm
  • Page paper onto which image mounted width: 234mm
29/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
Two tigers with raised tails confront a startled buck.
Style
Credit line
Given by Colonel T. G. Gayer-Anderson, CMG, DSO, and his twin brother Major R. G. Gayer- Anderson, Pasha.
Object history
From the Gayer-Anderson Collection.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Archer, W.G. Indian Painting in Bundi and Kotah Cat. No. 23, p. 14.
Collection
Accession number
IS.244-1952

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Record createdJune 27, 2003
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