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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Kangra (made)

Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, depicting a night tryst, from a series of fourteen paintings (oval shape with yellow margins and floral surrounds) based on the Rasika Priya (love poems of Radha and Krishna) of Keshav Das.

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Categories	Paintings Hinduism Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project Animals and Wildlife Landscapes
Object type	Painting
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour on paper Opaque Watercolour Paint Paper Painted
Brief description	Painting, night tryst, opaque watercolour on paper, Kangra, ca. 1820-1825
Physical description	Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, depicting a night tryst, from a series of fourteen paintings (oval shape with yellow margins and floral surrounds) based on the Rasika Priya (love poems of Radha and Krishna) of Keshav Das.
Dimensions	Height: 326mm Width: 236mm Image within innermost painted borders height: 251mm Image within innermost painted borders width: 168mm 05/06/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description	Night tryst.
Styles	Kangra Pahari
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed on the reverse in nagari characters with Hindi verses from the Rasika Priya of Keshav Das: prachanna vasakasajja nayika 'The lady who keeps a secret tryst' and numbered: 134.
Credit line	Purchased from Dr A K Coomaraswamy
Object history	IM.155-1914 to IM.157-1914 bought in 1914 from Mr M. K. Heeramanek for £50. Purchased from Dr A K Coomaraswamy, 39, Brookfield, West Hill, Highgate, N. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.
Subjects depicted	Trees Forest Woman Deer Peacock Radha
Bibliographic references	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. 306, cat. no. 66 (ii). Irwin, John C., Indian Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1968 pl. 46
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IM.157-1914

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Record created	January 10, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72821/painting-unknown/

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