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Krishna and Kaliya

Painting
ca. 1885 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Krishna quelling the snake Kaliya while two of Kaliya's wives implore him for mercy.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleKrishna and Kaliya (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Brief description
Painting, Krishna quelling Kaliya, opaque watercolour on paper, Kalighat, Kolkata, ca. 1885
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Krishna quelling the snake Kaliya while two of Kaliya's wives implore him for mercy.
Dimensions
  • Height: 447mm (maximum)
  • Width: 277mm (maximum)
07/08/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013.
Content description
Krishna quelling the snake Kaliya while two of Kaliya's wives implore him for mercy.
Style
Object history
Acquired by the Museum from Miss M. Steele in 1950. This picture from a series which was being part of a collection inherited from her mother, a scholar in Sanskrit at Cambridge in 1894. When delivering the collection, Miss Steele reported that her grandmother had also lived in India for some time and that it was possible that the pictures were originally collected by her grandmother.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
IS.640-1950

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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