One of twenty mica paintings depicting Hindu deities and festival processions with decorated cars.
Painting
ca.1850 (made)
ca.1850 (made)
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This picture comes from a set of 75 mica paintings in four albums. They depict Hindu deities and festival processions with decorated cars. They are mounted on paper with an 1851 watermark and appeared at the Great Exhibition of 1851 held in Hyde Park, London.
Artists made paintings on mica (talc) in Murshidabad, Patna and Varanasi (Benares) in eastern India and in Tiruchchirappalli (Trichinopoly) in the south. Indian artists had long used the mica for preserving tracings of their family paintings. They made sets of pictures depicting occupations, ceremonies, vehicles and so on exclusively for European patrons. These works come under the category of Company Paintings (named after the East India Company).
Artists made paintings on mica (talc) in Murshidabad, Patna and Varanasi (Benares) in eastern India and in Tiruchchirappalli (Trichinopoly) in the south. Indian artists had long used the mica for preserving tracings of their family paintings. They made sets of pictures depicting occupations, ceremonies, vehicles and so on exclusively for European patrons. These works come under the category of Company Paintings (named after the East India Company).
Object details
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| Title | One of twenty mica paintings depicting Hindu deities and festival processions with decorated cars. (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gouache on mica (mounted on paper with an 1851 watermark) |
| Brief description | Painting; gouache on mica, The procession of Jemboonadasawmy, Trichinopoly, ca.1850 |
| Physical description | The procession of 'Jemboonadasawmy' (the Hindu god Brahma) on his vehicle the hamsa or goose. One of a set of 75 drawings. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the India Museum, 1879 |
| Object history | Transferred from the India Museum, 1879 |
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| Summary | This picture comes from a set of 75 mica paintings in four albums. They depict Hindu deities and festival processions with decorated cars. They are mounted on paper with an 1851 watermark and appeared at the Great Exhibition of 1851 held in Hyde Park, London. Artists made paintings on mica (talc) in Murshidabad, Patna and Varanasi (Benares) in eastern India and in Tiruchchirappalli (Trichinopoly) in the south. Indian artists had long used the mica for preserving tracings of their family paintings. They made sets of pictures depicting occupations, ceremonies, vehicles and so on exclusively for European patrons. These works come under the category of Company Paintings (named after the East India Company). |
| Associated object | 4662:14/(IS) (Duplicate) |
| Bibliographic reference | Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period
Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 209 p. ISBN 0944142303 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 4664:10/(IS) |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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