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Lot Essay
In the present scene the infant Pradyumna, son of Krishna and Rukmini, is swallowed unharmed by the fish. Thus saved, he grows up to annihilate the demon Samvara, thus fulfilling the prediction.
W.B. Archer, in Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, p. 50f., refers to this series as the 'Large Guler-Basholi' Baghavata Purana. He notes that "specific scenes and details are frankly based on the Gita Govinda [by Manaku] of 1730-35," as well as "a conscious adoption of idioms, connected with the work of... Nainsukh," suggesting that the principal artist of this series may have been Nainsukh's nephew and Manaku's son, Fattu.
Archer dates the series to 1760-65. However, more recently Binney reported that Khandalavala and Goswamy discovered the date 1769 written on a folio in the Binney Collection, cf. Binney and De La Lama, Panorama de la Miniatura, no. 30.
W.B. Archer, in Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, p. 50f., refers to this series as the 'Large Guler-Basholi' Baghavata Purana. He notes that "specific scenes and details are frankly based on the Gita Govinda [by Manaku] of 1730-35," as well as "a conscious adoption of idioms, connected with the work of... Nainsukh," suggesting that the principal artist of this series may have been Nainsukh's nephew and Manaku's son, Fattu.
Archer dates the series to 1760-65. However, more recently Binney reported that Khandalavala and Goswamy discovered the date 1769 written on a folio in the Binney Collection, cf. Binney and De La Lama, Panorama de la Miniatura, no. 30.