painting
- Museum number
- 1954,0410,0.19
- Description
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Opaque watercolour painting on paper of a Brahmin and his wife. The Brahmin is dressed in a white dhoti with a red border and matching angavastra (shawl) and stands with a palm-leaf manuscript in his left hand and his right raised. He wears a tall green and red cap on his shaven head. On his forehead are a tilaka and a tripundra (three horizontal lines). Three earrings hang from his earlobes, each with a different gem – emerald, pearl and ruby. Around his neck he wears a garland of rudraksha berries alternating with golden beads. Over his left shoulder is a folded shawl with a floral pattern. Opposite him is his wife, heavily bejeweled, wearing a nine-yard sari with a floral pattern on a white ground and a deep red border, draped to cover her bare breasts. In the background is a landscape with soaring coconut palms and other trees. Clouds float in the sky. Two loops attached to the feet of the figures suggest the shadows cast by their bodies.
- Production date
- 18thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 32.20 centimetres
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Width: 21 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1954,0410,0.19
