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Kanada Raga

Painting
ca. 1700 - ca. 1710 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Kulu, (made)

A Ragamala painting on paper depicting a musician holding a vina approaching a seated prince who is playing a vina near a building; illustration to the musical mode kanada raga.

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Musical Instruments
Musical Instruments
Royalty
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitleKanada Raga (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paint
Paper
Painted
Brief description
Painting, kanada raga, prince mounting horse, opaque watercolour on paper, Kulu, ca. 1700-1710
Physical description
A Ragamala painting on paper depicting a musician holding a vina approaching a seated prince who is playing a vina near a building; illustration to the musical mode kanada raga.
Content description
A musician holding a vina approaching a seated prince who is playing a vina near a building; illustration to the musical mode kanada raga.
Style
Kulu
Marks and inscriptions
Translation
'Kanara raga son of megha raga, first sheet'
Transliteration
'Kanara raga megha rageda putra, pahili patara'
Gallery label
(27/9/2013)
ILLUSTRATION TO THE MUSICAL MODE KANADA RAGA
Opaque watercolour and silver on paper
Kulu or Bahu, Punjab Hills
c. 1700-10
IS.23-1954
From the collection of
Sir William Rothenstein
The painting comes from a ragamala or ‘garland of ragas’, a series of pictorial depictions of the various musical modes. The major ragas have ‘wives’ and ‘sons’. An inscription in Takri, a script used in the Punjab Hills, identifies the mode illustrated here as Kanara raga, the ‘son’ of Megha raga. The illustration depicts a musician holding a vina saluting a seated prince who is playing a vina.
Object history
From the Sir William Rothenstein collection (residuary).
Subjects depicted
Vinas
Prince
Musicians
Bibliographic reference
Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills : a survey and history of Pahari miniature painting / by W. G. Archer ; foreword by Sherman E. Lee. London :Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet ;Oxford University Press, 1973 Number: 0856670022 p.334, cat. no. xxix.
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.23-1954

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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