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1. Add Or 3476-3484

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Add Or 3476-3484
Title:
Add.Or.3476-3484 Scroll painting cut into nine sections illustrating the Krishna story and the Baha festival. By Pranesvar Citrakar of village Bora, B ...
Scope & Content:
Add.Or.3476-3484 Scroll painting cut into nine sections illustrating the Krishna story and the Baha festival. By Pranesvar Citrakar of village Bora, Banskuli circle, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, Bihar, c.1940. Water-colour; width 270 mm. Pale blue patterned border as in previous scrol...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1939-1941
Extent:
9 items

2. Add Or 3477

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3477
Title:
Krishna dancing before a seated milkmaid.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna dancing before a seated milkmaid; below, Krishna with blue face and Balarama with yellow face dancing before a milkmaid who stands beside them. In both cases, the dancers hold short sticks above their heads.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 3482

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3482
Title:
Two majestic figures with large heads.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Two majestic figures with large heads and arms upraised, their legs swathed in yellow dhotis, standing on either side of a slightly shorter female figure, her arms also raised. The figure on the left with blue face and chest, the figure on the right with white face and chest. Below, a blue mon...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3484

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3484
Title:
Episodes from the Baha festival. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Above, a bullock about to be killed, a boy holding its tall, two Santals standing in front, one of them with an axe. Below, three figures preparing rice-beer. At the bottom, two men and two women standing with two sal-tree branches.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3481

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3481
Title:
Krishna playing his flute with Radha caressing him.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna playing on his flute with Radha caressing him, to the left a milkmaid fanning him with a hand punkah, to the right, another milkmaid fanning him, a third milkmaid with a fly-whisk. Below, the circular dance in the form of a wheel with eight spokes, four containing milkmaids, every other...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3478

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3478
Title:
Balarama, Krishna and a cowherd standing in a row.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Balarama, Krishna and a cowherd standing in a row, each holding a short stick; the cowherd raising an honorific unibrella over Krishna. Below, four cows - yellow, blue, white and green.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3479

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3479
Title:
Krishna seated on a stool accosting three milkmaids with pots of curd on their heads.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna seated on a stool accosting three milkmaids with pots of curd on their heads. Below, Krishna ferrying two of them across the river Jumna in a boat.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3483

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3483
Title:
A brown-skinned four-headed figure sitting on a stool, with a supplicant, and 18 bleeding heads. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Above, a brown skinned four-headed figure with two arms seated on a low foot-stool, a princely figure kneeling and supplicating before him. Below, eighteen human heads in two rows, dripping long streams of blood. At the bottom, a drummer with five boys, two clashing cymbals the remaining three...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 3476

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3476
Title:
The baby Krishna sitting on Jasoda's lap with another milkmaid.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The baby Krishna sitting on Jasoda’s lap with another milkmaid (perhaps Rohini) seated opposite; both women are seated on high elaborately turned stools from which their legs dangle.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 3480

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3480
Title:
Krishna carrying two pots of curd slung form a yoke, on either side of him a milkmaid with pots of curd on her head.. Artist(s): Praneshwar Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna carrying two pots of curd slung from a yoke, on either side of him a milkmaid with a pot of curds on her head. Below, two milkmaids complaining to Krishna about being teased.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

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