Scroll Painting
ca. 1940 (made)
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Scroll painting, watercolour on paper, with a cloth support, with two panels. In the upper one, a Santal chief is shown seated on a chestnut horse (with a head similar to that of the bull in Picasso's Guernica), which is led by an attendant on foot; another man with a gun and a dog on a leash pursues a spotted stag. In the lower panel, three sepoys stand in a row, each with the right arm pointing upwards. The dominant rich chestnut brown colour is alos used on the (indented) borders of the scroll. The lower portion of the scroll consists of two used official forms of the East Bengal Railway, dated 1936 and 1933.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Painted in watercolour on paper, with cloth support |
| Brief description | Scroll painting, Santal chief on horse, by Kelaram Chitrakar, watercolour on paper with cloth support, Santhal, ca. 1940 |
| Physical description | Scroll painting, watercolour on paper, with a cloth support, with two panels. In the upper one, a Santal chief is shown seated on a chestnut horse (with a head similar to that of the bull in Picasso's Guernica), which is led by an attendant on foot; another man with a gun and a dog on a leash pursues a spotted stag. In the lower panel, three sepoys stand in a row, each with the right arm pointing upwards. The dominant rich chestnut brown colour is alos used on the (indented) borders of the scroll. The lower portion of the scroll consists of two used official forms of the East Bengal Railway, dated 1936 and 1933. |
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| Content description | In the upper panel, a Santal chief is shown seated on a chestnut horse (with a head similar to that of the bull in Picasso's Guernica), which is led by an attendant on foot; another man with a gun and a dog on a leash pursues a spotted stag. In the lower panel, three sepoys stand in a row, each with the right arm pointing upwards. |
| Credit line | Given by Mr. John C. Irwin, 1978. |
| Object history | The scroll was originally collected by W.G. Archer. The Museum received the scroll as a gift from John C. Irwin in 1978. |
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| Accession number | IS.28-1978 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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