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Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 35,5
Title:: Desakari Ragini
Scope & Content:: Desakari Ragini. A lady is seated on a garden terrace with a mirror before her, a maid standing behind her combing her hair. Inscriptions on reverse: (1) Persian: ‘devkari’; (2) Hindi: ‘megh malhar ki ragini devakari’; (3) Hindi ‘doha’ and ‘kabita’ by Harivallabha naming the subject as ‘desaka...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1770-1775
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 35,6
Title:: Bhupali Ragini
Scope & Content:: Bhupali Ragini. Lovers stand on a terrace at night. The man holds the girl’s hand and offers her betel nut. Inscriptions on reverse: (1) Persian: ‘Bhupali’ and the time of day appropriate; (2) Persian: ‘Bhupali’; (3) Hindi: ‘megh malhar ki ragini bhopali’; (4) Hindi ‘doha’ and ‘kabita’ by Har...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1770-1775
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 35,7
Title:: Gujari Ragini
Scope & Content:: Gujari Ragini. A girl walks in a landscape by a lily pond with a brass water-pot on her head looking behind her. Inscriptions on reverse: (1) Persian: ‘gujari’; (2) Persian: ‘gujari’; (3) Hindi: ‘raga megh malhar ki ragini gujari’; (4) Hindi ‘doha’ and’ kabita’ (7 lines); (5) Persian descripti...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1770-1775
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 35,8
Title:: Nata Ragini
Scope & Content:: Nata Ragini. A battle scene where a mounted prince wounds a foot-soldier having already slain another. Inscriptions on reverse: (1) Urdu:’ nat’ and the time of day in Persian; (2) Urdu: ‘nat’; (3) Hindi: ‘rag nat’; (4) Sanskrit verse (3 lines); (5) Hindi ‘doha’ and ‘kabita by’ Harivallabha (6 ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1770-1775
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 35,9
Title:: Kanada Ragini
Scope & Content:: Kanada Ragini. A courtier acclaims a prince who stands at a doorway holding a sword and a severed tusk. A slain elephant lies on the terrace in the foreground. Inscriptions on reverse: (1) Persian: ‘kanra’; (2) Persian: ‘kanra’; (3) Hindi: ‘rag dipak ki ragini kanhra 2’; (4) Sanskrit verse (2...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1770-1775
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 36,1
Title:: Bhupali Ragini
Scope & Content:: Bhupali Ragini. The ‘nayika’ stands on a terrace at night holding a flower in one hand, attended by seven girls who carry covered dishes and other objects; a bed-chamber is on the right.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 36,1v
Title:: Tree with red adavats
Scope & Content:: Reverse: eight red adavats are perched in a tree with Harivallabha’s Hindi verses written on their bodies, the Persian identification is written on the trunk of the tree.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 36,2
Title:: Tanka Ragini
Scope & Content:: Tanka Ragini. A prince arrives on a terrace to meet his lady who sits on a lotus-petal bed beneath an awning, with her girls in attendance; one of the girls has taken care of the prince’s dagger.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 36,2v
Title:: Tree with red-vented bulbuls
Scope & Content:: Reverse: eight red-vented bulbuls are perched in a blossoming tree with Harivallabha’s Hindi verses written on their bodies; the Persian identification is written on the trunk of the tree.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Johnson 36,3
Title:: Malhari Ragini
Scope & Content:: Malhari Ragini. The ‘nayika’ sits in a roof-pavilion playing a ‘vina’ as she remembers her absent lover. An empty courtyard is in the foreground with a border of white flowers at its edge; a pastoral landscape is in the distance with a river and boats.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1760
Extent:: 1 Item

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