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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.167
Title
Girls Worshipping at a Shiva Shrine, Rama and Lakshmana on the Left (painting, recto), illustration from a Ramayana series
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
18th - 19th century
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Sirohi
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216310

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
25.7 x 29.7 cm (10 1/8 x 11 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Kenneth Galbraith
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.167
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This painting depicts the blue-skinned Rama, the seventh avatar of Hindu god Vishnu, and his brother, Lakshmana, on their way to a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. They pluck flowers in the garden, which has numerous flower beds. On the right, around the temple, is a group of girls who have come to pray at the temple. Some of them are engrossed in offering garlands and flowers to the lingam, the aniconic representation of the Hindu god Shiva, inside the temple. Those on the outside look at the two young men, admiring them from afar.

This folio possibly belongs to a Ramayana manuscript produced in Sirohi. This manuscript is notable for its vibrant blue background, achieved through the use of the pigment Prussian blue. Other folios from the same manuscript in the Harvard Art Museums’ collections are 1973.164, 1973.165, 1973.166.A, 1973.166.B, 1973.167, 1973.168.A, 1973.168.B, 1973.169, 1973.170.A, 1973.170.B, 1973.171. Rajput, Rajasthani, Sirohi School.


Exhibition History

  • Gods, Thrones, and Peacocks - Revisited: Northern Indian Miniatures from two Traditions, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/31/1990 - 06/10/1990
  • From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Painting from the Punjab and Rajasthan, 17th through 19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/1993 - 10/31/1993

Verification Level

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