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301. Add Or 3504

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Add Or 3504
Title:
Krishna playing the flute, Radha standing before him. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna playing the flute, Radha standing beside him, two milkmaids with upraised fans.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

302. Add Or 3506

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Add Or 3506
Title:
Six milkmaids dancing . Below, the infant Krishna milking a blue cow, a small calf standing beside it.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Six milkmaids dancing. Below, the infant Krishna with yellow skin seated on a stool milking a blue cow, a small white calf with blue spots and tufted ears standing beside it.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

303. Add Or 3508

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Add Or 3508
Title:
A suppliant figure kneeling before a four -headed, two-armed figure with massive head-dress. Below, two rows of 18 heads.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
A suppliant figure with long scarf kneeling before a four-headed, two-armed figure with massive head-dress seated on a cot. Below, two rows of eighteen severed heads - the top row dripping blood in a thin trickle, the lower row surmounting a series of yellow and reddish brown stripes (streams o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

304. Add Or 3509

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Add Or 3509
Title:
Eight Vaisnava devotees engaged in kirtan chanting praise of Krishna (Hari), with musicians. A bullock about to be sacrificed. Two headless corpses, their severed heads below them.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Eight Vaisnava devotees engaged in ‘kirtan’ chanting praise of Krishna (Hari). In the centre a drummer with thin cylindrical drum, on either side of him a figure clashing cymbals, to the left, a figure with upraised arms, on the right, two further figures also with upraised arms. Below them tw...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

305. Add Or 3510

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Add Or 3510
Title:
Three man in a row seated before cooking pots piled one above another. Below, a pair of men and a pair of women, one chastising the other with a broom.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Three men in a row seated before three cooking pots piled one above another. Below, a pair of men and a pair of women, one chastising the other with a ‘broom’. Inscribed in Bengali characters, above: ‘anna kiniya khai’ (we buy rice for our food); below: ‘jhatar bari’ (to beat with a broom). N...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

306. Add Or 3511

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3511
Title:
Radha and Krishna. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Radha and Krishna standing together in an alcove with Krishna holding a flute, two milkmaids fanning them. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.73.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 Item

307. Add Or 3512

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Title:
Jasoda, Krishna who holds a flute, and Balarama with a cowherd holding over him a parasol. Below, three cows with fluting Krishna, Balarama, and another cowherd. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Jasoda sitting on a high stool, her legs dangling, supporting the young Krishna who holds a flute; Balarama with a stick standing beside them, another cowherd holding over him a small parasol. Below, three cows - brown, white and blue - with Krishna playing on the flute; Balarama, white-skinned...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 Item

308. Add Or 3513

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Add Or 3513
Title:
Seven milkmaids.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Seven milkmaids in two lines.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 Item

309. Add Or 3514

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Add Or 3514
Title:
Krishna stealing the milkmaids' clothes. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Six milkmaids, nude with long hair, standing on the green bank of the river Jumna, the river indicated by the blue of the border. A tall tree, dividing them into two groups, conceals the figure of Krishna, who sits on a branch, holding a long flute, six various coloured dresses flapping around ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 Item

310. Add Or 3515

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3515
Title:
Krishna with milkmaids and pots of curds. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
A row of four milkmaids, each with a pot of curds on her head. Below, Krishna seated at the top of a towering stool, approached by two further milkmaids, also carrying pots of curd. Krishna, as previously, with a flute.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 Item