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Hindola Raga

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

A Ragamala painting in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Krishna on a swing, attended by two girls, illustration to the musical mode hindola raga. Inscribed on the top border in Takri.

Object details

Categories
Hinduism
Paintings
Religion
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitleHindola Raga (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
Paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paint
Paper
Painted
Painted
Brief description
Painting, hindola raga, Krishna on swing, opaque watercolour on paper, Kulu, ca. 1700-1710
Physical description
A Ragamala painting in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Krishna on a swing, attended by two girls, illustration to the musical mode hindola raga. Inscribed on the top border in Takri.
Dimensions
  • Height: 207mm (maximum)
  • Width: 207mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 155mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 157mm (maximum)
24/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description
Krishna on a swing, attended by two girls, illustration to the musical mode hindola raga.
Style
Kulu
Marks and inscriptions
  • (handwritten on front in Takri)
    Transliteration
    'Sri hindola raga'
  • (handwritten in Takri on verso)
    Translation
    'the third sheet Hindoli'
    Transliteration
    'tisra patara hindoleda'
Object history
From the Sir William Rothenstein collection (residuary).
Subjects depicted
Music
Deity
Women
Swing
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. 332, cat. no.13 ix
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.19-1954

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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