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681. Add Or 3760

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Add Or 3760
Title:
Krishna embracing Radha, with milkmaids.
Scope & Content:
Krishna embracing Radha. Radha and Krishna each standing on one leg, their other limbs entwined; Radha holding Krishna’s flute in the middle; Krishna holding Radha with his left arm. On the left, a milkmaid with a fly-whisk, on the right, another milkmaid with a fan. Above them draped curtain...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1960
Extent:
1 Item

682. Add Or 3761

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3761
Title:
The circular dance. Artist(s): Beniram Chitrakar (fl. c.1960)
Scope & Content:
The circular dance. In the centre, Krishna seated on lotuses playing his flute; around him five nude milkmaids with yellow bodies dancing, four of them waving yak’s tail fly-whisks, the fifth at the base leaning backwards holding her feet. Red background with white sprigs and green branches, b...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1960
Extent:
1 Item

683. Add Or 3762

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3762
Title:
The Jagannatha trio in a temple setting. Ravi Varma Press, Malavli-Lonavla.
Scope & Content:
Balabhadra with oval white face, eyes looking to the left, stands with Jagannatha also with oval face, eyes staring to the front. Each has upraised wooden ‘arms’. Attending figures more realistic. Shrine red against a blue sky. At the base in separate panels three small Jagannatha figures, c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

684. Add Or 3762-3763, Add Or 3766

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Add Or 3762-3763, Add Or 3766
Title:
Add.Or.3762-3763, Add.Or.3766 A series of three chromolithographs depicting the Jagannatha trio in the temple setting. Size: 185 by 130 mm. Lettered a ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3762-3763, Add.Or.3766 A series of three chromolithographs depicting the Jagannatha trio in the temple setting. Size: 185 by 130 mm. Lettered at base in English and ‘nagari’ characters with the name and address of the publisher. Acquired by W.G. Archer from a stall adjoining the Puri ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1929-1931
Extent:
3 items

685. Add Or 3763

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3763
Title:
The Jagannatha trio in a temple setting. Ravi Varma Press, Malavli-Lonavla
Scope & Content:
Printed version of Add.Or.3721 simplified and with various details misunderstood; a single rider meets the milkmaid, human (not monkey) figures are shown beneath Rama and Ravana, Balabhadra has inturning eyes (as in certain paintings of Sri Nathji at Nathadwara, Mewar, Rajasthan). Registered Nu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

686. Add Or 3764

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3764
Title:
The Jagannatha trio entwined. Published by Hem Chandra Dhar Gaya C.. Chowk Delhi.
Scope & Content:
The Jagannatha trio entwined. Similar in conception to Add.Or.3723-4 but with the following significant differences: tiny format, vulgar colouring, no wooden ‘arms’, Subhadra with realistic eyes, red background, roof of shrine with two large green parakeets, at the foot, three priests recumbent...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

687. Add Or 3765

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3765
Title:
The Jagannatha trio, with other gods. Ravi Varma Press, Malavli-Lonavla
Scope & Content:
The Jagannatha trio. Comparable in design and idioms to Add.Or.3719 with Balabhadra and Jagannatha possessing human arms, legs and torsos, their knees bent as if dancing, yellow wooden ‘arms’ with red stripes sprouting like wings from behind their shoulders. Below them a panel of four seated g...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

688. Add Or 3766

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3766
Title:
The Jagannatha trio in temple setting. Ravi Varma Press, Malavli-Lonavla
Scope & Content:
The trio heavily garlanded and clothed with pleated skirts, portions of vertical yellow wing-like’arms’attached to the shoulders of Balabhadra and Jagannatha , Subhadra with a large crown. Small shrine with red background. At the base a human-looking Garuda flanked by lions. Printed details a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

689. Add Or 3767

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3767
Title:
The Jagannatha trio, crowned, with other gods. Kansari Para Art Studio, Calcutta.
Scope & Content:
The Jagannatha trio. The trio heavily clothed stand on a gilt-edged dais between two pillars. Balabhadra and Jagannatha have stump-like arms cut off at the wrists. All three wear elaborate crowns. Faces as in painted versions. No wing-like ‘arms’. In front of them, placed on a blue chequer...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

690. Add Or 3812

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3812
Title:
Two cowherds asking the wives of the Mathura Brahmins for food for Krishna
Scope & Content:
Two cow herds are asking the wives of the Brahmins of Mathura for food for Krishna: an illustration from the tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana. Kangra, c.1800. Presented by Michael Archer, 20 April 1975 (purchased from Ishwari Prasad, Patna, March 1948). Numbered 64; inscribed on reverse in ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item