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461. Johnson 37,5

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,5
Title:
Bhairava Raga
Scope & Content:
Bhairava Raga. Bhairava dressed in a yellow ‘dhoti’ and green mantle is rubbed with sandal paste by his consort. Two girl musicians play a ‘tambur’ and drum and one of two attendant maids prepares sandal paste in the foreground under a full moon in a cloudy sky. Reproduced: Stchoukine (1929),...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

462. Johnson 37,6

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,6
Title:
Vasanta Ragini
Scope & Content:
Vasanta Ragini. Radha and Krishna dance on a terrace in the Spring season surrounded by girls playing music and spraying red dye through syringes to celebrate the Holi festival. Reproduced: Stchoukine (1929), pl.LXXXIV; Gangoly (1935), II, pl.LX, fig.C.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

463. Johnson 37,7

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,7
Title:
Puraj Ragini
Scope & Content:
Ragini (unidentified). A lady sits under a full moon and starry sky with a pet parrot perched on her hand. Her companion playing on a ‘tambur’ kneels on a terrace with candles. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.XL, fig.C. Note: This subject, as with no.9, is entitled ‘‘Puraj’’ ‘Ragini’ in r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

464. Johnson 37,8

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,8
Title:
Lalita Ragini
Scope & Content:
Lalita Ragini. A prince holding two garlands walks down steps into a garden, leaving his lady sleeping on a bed under a crescent moon. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.XXXVI, fig.A.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

465. Johnson 37,9

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 37,9
Title:
Puraj Ragini
Scope & Content:
Ragini (unidentified). A lady seated in a garden pavilion holds a garland while a girl kneels before her tuning a’ tambur’. Two maids attend with a’ chauri’ and a tray of bottles; ‘champaka’ trees are on either side against a blue sky. Reproduced: Gangoly (1935), II, pl.CVII, fig.B. Note: Th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1760
Extent:
1 Item

466. Johnson 39,1

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 39,1
Title:
Bhairava Raga
Scope & Content:
Bhairava Raga. Bhairava sits on an elephant-skin upon a rocky hillock with the Ganges issuing from the coil of his hair. The bull Nandi is in the foreground. Reverse: verse in ‘nasta‘liq.’ Reproduced: Ebeling (1973), 216, fig.124.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

467. Johnson 39,1-36

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 39,1-36
Title:
J.39,1-36 Thirty-six paintings comprising a’ ragamala’ series, arranged according to Hanuman’s system. Central India, c.1780. Richard Johnson Collecti ...
Scope & Content:
J.39,1-36 Thirty-six paintings comprising a’ ragamala’ series, arranged according to Hanuman’s system. Central India, c.1780. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed with Sanskrit verses of Damodara’s ‘Sangita-darpana’. Gouache with gold; orange borders. 210 by 135 mm includ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1779-1781
Extent:
36 items

468. Johnson 39,2

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 39,2
Title:
Madhyamadi Ragini
Scope & Content:
Madhyamadi Ragini. Lovers stand and embrace in a palace chamber. The girl has a golden face and body in literal agreement with the Sanskrit phrase ‘(svarna-chavi).’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

469. Johnson 39,3

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 39,3
Title:
Bhairavi Ragini
Scope & Content:
Bhairavi Ragini. Bhairavi kneels on a silver platform on the summit of Mount Kailasa with a pair of ‘ghana’ in her hands, offering red lotuses at the shrine of Bhairava. Reverse: verse in ‘nasta‘liq.’ See Gangoly (1935), II, pl.IV for the Sanskrit description.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item

470. Johnson 39,4

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 39,4
Title:
Bangali Ragini
Scope & Content:
Bangali Ragini. A female ascetic with compact top-knot stands in a meadow between trees holding a shining trident in her hand and a begging bowl in a fold of her garment. See Gangoly (1935), II, pl.VIII for the Sanskrit description.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1780
Extent:
1 Item