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Record Id:

040-003280046

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003280045

MDARK:

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Add Or 3346

Title:

The Tarakeshwar murder: the Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple.

Scope & Content:

The Mahant sees Elokesi at the Tarakesvar temple. The Mahant (high priest of the Siva temple, Tarakesvar) holds a ‘nargila’ pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him stand three women - Elokesi, the young wife of the clerk, Nabin Chandra Banerjee, holding up a plate of rice or sweetmeats in her left hand and boldly unveiling her face with her right; her younger sister, Muktakesi, unveiled stands behind her with folded hands; between them in the background, Telebo, the female servant of the family who acted as procuress, looks away. Yellow background.

546 by 336 mm.

Purchased by W.G. Archer in London, 1961. Purchased 1974.

Note: For another illustration of the same episode,see W.G.Archer (1971), pl.27.

Exhibited National Portrait Gallery, London, The Raj: India and the British, 14 October 1990 - 17 March 1991. Exhibited South Bank Centre, Kalighat Paintings, Leicester Museum 27 November 1993 - 9 January 1994; Edinburgh 15 January - 20 February 1994; Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 26 February - 10 April 1994; Oxford Museum of Modern Art, 16 April -19 June 1994. Exhibited Los Angeles County Museum of Art 'Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World' 10 June - 30 August 1999.

published: Bayly, C.A. (ed), 'The Raj, India and the British 1600-1947', National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1991, no 401 (i), p. 307

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

Archer Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003280045
040-003280046

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Add Or 3346-3347 : Add.Or.3346-3347 Two paintings depicting episodes from the Tarakesvar murder. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1875. Water-colour with…

Add Or 3346 : The Tarakeshwar murder: the Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple.

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 Item

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Languages:

Not applicable

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Styles:

Bengal style
Calcutta style
Eastern India style
Kalighat style

Start Date:

1874

End Date:

1876

Date Range:

c 1875

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Physical Characteristics:

Medium: watercolour

Exhibitions:

Kalighat Painting: Images from a Changing World, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 10 June 1999 - 30 August 1999

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

crime and punishment