Object number1976.63.10

Desakh Ragini

Portfolio/Seriesfrom a Ragamala series

Datec. 1820

Artist Currently Unidentified

CultureIndian [Northern or Western]

MediumOpaque watercolor and gold on paper

DimensionsImage: 11 3/16 x 7 1/2 in. (28.4 x 19 cm)
Matted: 22 1/16 x 16 1/8 in. (56 x 41 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Pitt (Juliet Thompson, class of 1922)

On View

Not on view

Period19th c (British Colonial Period)

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

Vassar Exhibitions

India in Miniature: Works from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition HistoryArt of India: Convergence of Cultures from the Romans to the Raj, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 2 - March 18, 1997;

India in Miniature: Works from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 24 - April 23, 2017
DescriptionA group of female acrobats perform various movements, with one of the acrobats lying horizontally in the air balancing on a beam. Behind them is an open landscape surrounded by trees with puffy white clouds against a blue sky.

Terms

female

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