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WD1065(38)
- Record Id:
- 041-003791703
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003288785
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100116970523.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162036558.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD1065(38)
- Title:
- [Two holy men and two equestrian figures. Wall painting at Anegondi, January 1801.] Artist(s): Anonymous.
- Scope & Content:
- Water-colour drawing of two holy men and two equestrian figures painted on the ceiling of the Uchappaya Matha at Anegondi in Karnataka, from an album of 56 sheets of drawings (60 folios) mainly of miscellaneous architecture and sculpture in the Deccan and S. India. ff.31-38 depict ceiling paintings at Anegundi, dated 1793-1806. The Uchappaya Matha, a dilapidated two-storeyed structure to the south of the village, is of interest for the fragments of Vijayanagara paintings preserved on the ceiling beams. The major part of the paintings, though, no longer exist. This drawing depicts some of the figures from these paintings. In 'A survey of Painting in the Deccan' of 1937, Stella Kramrisch described wrote, "The paintings on the ceiling of the Uchayappa Matha at Anegundi to-day present a black and white effect with some red lines of the preliminary drawing left. The colours have disappeared but for an eight petalled lotus with a yellow centre, surrounded by red, on a blue ground in a niche of the wall. Traces of the same colours are preserved in the spandrils and between the pilasters of the wall. Such a fresh blast of colour must be surmised also in the paintings of the ceiling, constructed of large stone slabs. These are covered with a thin white plaster. The entire ceiling, it seems, of the pillared Matha had been painted...In the Anegundi paintings, which can not be prior to the third quarter of the sixteenth century, the figures to a considerable extent adhere in body and movement to classical coinage. They have powerful limbs and vehement gestures...The faces however are almost always in profile or front view. Their firm outline conveys mediaeval rigour...".
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003288785
040-003791665
041-003791703 - Is part of:
- MacKenzie Collection : MacKenzie CollectionMACKENZIE, COLIN (1754-1821) Madras Engineers 1782-1821; Surveyor-General of India 1817-21.
WD1065 : Album of 56 sheets of drawings mainly of miscellaneous architecture and sculpture in the Deccan and S. India. 1793-1806
WD1065(38) : [Two holy men and two equestrian figures. Wall painting at Anegondi, January 1801.] Artist(s): Anonymous. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003288785[0397]/040-003791665[0038]/041-003791703
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: MacKenzie Collection
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162036558.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1793
- End Date:
- 1806
- Date Range:
- 1793-1806
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Watercolour; 28.2 x 45.7 cm
- Publications:
- Reproduced in Howes (2010), plate 17.
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)