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371. Add Or 3499-3510

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3499-3510
Title:
Add.Or.3499-3510 Scroll painting cut into twelve sections depicting the Krishna story, the Baha festival, and Death’s kingdom. By Kirtan Citrakar, vil ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3499-3510 Scroll painting cut into twelve sections depicting the Krishna story, the Baha festival, and Death’s kingdom. By Kirtan Citrakar, village Bora, Banskuli circle, Dunika subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1940. Water-colour; width, 250 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1939-1941
Extent:
12 items

372. Add Or 3500

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3500
Title:
A group of six milkmaids standing in two lines.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
A group of six milkmaids standing in two lines with pitchers tucked under their right arms.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

373. Add Or 3501

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3501
Title:
Krishna playing the flute and stealing the milkmaids' clothes. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna playing the flute high up in a tall tree which is draped with the clothes of the milkmaids; below him, nine nude milkmaids standing on a river bank, their left hands (in eight cases) sheltering their sex, their right hands (in nine cases) upraised in supplication.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

374. Add Or 3502

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3502
Title:
Krishna with milkmaids. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna, seated on a stool, addressing two milkmaids with pots of curd on their heads; below, ferrying three milkmaids in a boat across the river Jumna.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

375. Add Or 3503

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3503
Title:
Krishna with milkmaids. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna carrying two pots of curd on a yoke; on either side a milkmaid with a pot of curd on her head. Below Krishna, seated on a stool, addressing three milkmaids who have laid their pots before him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

376. Add Or 3504

Reference (shelfmark):
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

377. Add Or 3505

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3505
Title:
Visnu , Brahma and Siva seated side by side on a cot. Below, Krishna fluting with Radha. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Visnu, Brahma and Siva seated side by side on a cot. Below, Krishna fluting with Radha, a flowering tree on either side. Inscribed in Bengali characters: ‘ras lila’ (play of delight).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

378. Add Or 3506

Reference (shelfmark):
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

379. Add Or 3507

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3507
Title:
The Baha festival - figures and monkey. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Two majestic figures swathed in yellow dhotis with stunted arms upraised standing on either side of a short female figure; the left figure with white face and chest, the right figure with blue face and chest. Below, a blue monkey-like figure seated on a foot stool addressing...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

380. Add Or 3508

Reference (shelfmark):
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