album;
painting
- Museum number
- 1999,1202,0.2.23
- Title
- Object: Raga Bairadi
- Description
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Painting from an album bound in red silk designed fabric containing a complete set of Jaipur 19th century Ragamala paintings.
A couple stand caressing in front of a bedchamber on a seagreen and gold carpet. The nayaka wears a shaded lilac jama and orange pyjamas, orange and gold shawl and red jeweled turban. The nayika wears a gold ghagra, yellow choli, dark blue odhni which she twists with her hand in orde rto portray emotion. Another house is shown in the left background. Neat shrubbery dotted with flowers border the terrace in the foreground and background. The sky is dark imdicating a night scene.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 32 centimetres (page)
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Height: 24.80 centimetres (painting including all margins)
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Width: 19.70 centimetres
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Width: 24.10 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The series is a complete one of thirty six based on the 'standardized painters system' existing in Jaipur during the 19th century. Black ink floral sprays on first and last pages.
Jaipur 19th century Ragamala paintings characteristically depict text in enclosed decorative panels or cartouches on top of each painting. (Ebeling, K., 'Ragamala Painting', 1973. Pg.228, illustration 148.)
The rasa is love in union.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 1999
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1999,1202,0.2.23
