One of seventeen mica paintings depicting Hindu deities.
Painting
ca.1850 (made)
ca.1850 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Kama on a composite elephant formed by women.
Object details
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| Title | One of seventeen mica paintings depicting Hindu deities. (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gouache on mica (mounted on paper with an 1851 watermark.) |
| Brief description | Painting; gouache on mica, Kama on a composite elephant formed by women, Trichinopoly, ca.1850 |
| Physical description | Kama on a composite elephant formed by women. |
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| Object history | Transferred from the India Museum, 1879. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| 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 208 p. ISBN 0944142303 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 4663:15/(IS) |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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