AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: DHANASRI RAGINI, INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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October 23, 04:16 PM GMT
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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: DHANASRI RAGINI, INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI, LATE 18TH CENTURY
gouache heightened with gold on paper, text panel at top, narrow inner black border, wide red outer borders
painting: 30.4 by 17.3cm.
leaf: 39.4 by 26.7cm.
Dhanasri Ragini represents a lonely lady waiting for her paramour, and the iconography often depicts a her holding a painting of her lover (see Ebeling 1973, p.77, no.C26, p.199, no.88).