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Collection Area Visual Arts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Johnson Collection

1021. Johnson 37,19

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,19
Title:
Desakhya Ragini
Scope & Content:
Desakhya Ragini. Six athletes wrestle and perform with clubs, a pole and a bow, on a terrace by a white building.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1022. Johnson 37,20

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,20
Title:
Dhanasri Ragini
Scope & Content:
Dhanasri Ragini. A lady writing a letter to her absent lover, sits on a canopied verandah before a fountain pool with fish. Her confidante approaches up steps in the foreground. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LVIII, fig.B.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1023. Johnson 37,21

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,21
Title:
Kakubha Ragini
Scope & Content:
Kakubha Ragini. A lady sits on a rocky hillock playing the ‘vina’ to the birds gathered round her. Four peacocks perch in a tree nearby and three cranes strut at her feet. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LXVII, fig.A; Goetz (1949), fig.2.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1024. Johnson 37,22

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,22
Title:
Todi Ragini
Scope & Content:
Todi Ragini. A lady standing in a field with four deer gathered round her holds a ‘vina’ and a garland, while a pair of white cranes fly across the gold and blue sky.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1025. Johnson 37,23

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,23
Title:
Sri Raga
Scope & Content:
Sri Raga. A prince with four girls in attendance, sits beneath a canopy on a garden terrace listening to a yogini with a ‘vina’ and a horse-headed ‘kinnara’ who is playing cymbals. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LIII, fig.A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1026. Johnson 37,24

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,24
Title:
Sorath Ragini
Scope & Content:
Sorath Ragini. A girl holding a ‘tambur’ stands in a moonlit landscape surrounded by peacocks; in the distance on the right is a town. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LXVII, fig.B. Note: The equivalent subject in related Deccani series is often identified as ‘‘Sohni’Ragini.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1027. Johnson 37,25

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,25
Title:
Gauri Ragini
Scope & Content:
Gauri Ragini. A lady, looking out of the picture to the left, stands on a garden terrace holding two sprays of flowers. Identified in Persian as ‘Bhairava Raga’ on a label which has been attached, apparently in error, to the reverse of the border: ‘rag-i avval bhairon vaqt-i sih 3 kahari(?).’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1028. Johnson 37,26

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,26
Title:
Syam Kalyan Ragini
Scope & Content:
Syam Kalyan Ragini. An attendant brings a lamp to her lady, shading the flame with one hand. The lady is sitting with a garland around her neck. There are buildings on either side in mirror image of one another. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.CIX, fig.D.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1029. Johnson 37,27

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,27
Title:
Sugrai Ragini
Scope & Content:
Sugrai Ragini. Two lovers walk arm in arm through a garden, towards a bed which is being prepared in a pavilion by a maid. The man holds a garland and the lady indicates the bed with her hand. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LXXX, fig.B. Note: This subject in Rajasthani sets would be iden...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

1030. Johnson 37,28

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,28
Title:
Bangali Ragini
Scope & Content:
Bangali Ragini. The ‘ragini’ figure crouches in worship before a shrine to Siva with a lioness lying behind her beside a burning candle. She is in a courtyard overlooked by a balcony. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.CVI, fig.D. Note: Other Hyderabad sets supply this subject with the title...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item