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Gauri Ragini

Painting
ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Bengal (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a gayly clothed lady awaits for her lover in a glade by a lake. She is holding a garland in one hand and in the other a morchhal of flowers (fly-whisk). Illustration to the musical mode gauri ragini.

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Music
Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type
Painting
TitleGauri Ragini (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Opaque Watercolour
Paint
Paper
Gold
Painted
Brief description
Painting, gauri ragini, lady walking near lake, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mughal style in Bengal, ca. 1760
Physical description
Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a gayly clothed lady awaits for her lover in a glade by a lake. She is holding a garland in one hand and in the other a morchhal of flowers (fly-whisk). Illustration to the musical mode gauri ragini.
Dimensions
  • Height: 417mm (maximum)
  • Width: 320mm (maximum)
  • Image within innermost painted borders height: 230mm
  • Image within innermost painted borders width: 159mm (maximum)
14/08/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object and painted borders irregular in shape
Content description
A gayly clothed lady awaits for her lover in a glade by a lake. She is holding a garland in one hand and in the other a morchhal of flowers (fly-whisk). Illustration to the musical mode gauri ragini.
Style
Mughal
Object history
Purchased from Messrs Maggs Brothers in 1958.
Production
Provincial Mughal, an offshoot of the Lucknow and Murshidabad styles.
Subjects depicted
Music
Love
Woman
Lover
Lake
Garland
Flowers
Bibliographic reference
Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) : p.46
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.15-1958

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Record createdDecember 5, 2003
Record URL
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