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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RASIKAPRIYA SERIES: A MESSAGE FOR KRISHNA
KANGRA, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a sakhi delivers a message to Krishna who sits enthroned on a terrace of a white palace, a river and hills in the background, within yellow bordered medallion and frame, with simplified floral and scrolling patterned spandrels, in black rules, with red dotted pink borders, a line of black devanagari script above 'shri krishna ko sandesa' (a message for Krishna), the number '79' to the upper left corner, the reverse with 7ll. of verse in red and black devanagari script, with protective stamped and numbered fly-leaf with red, yellow and black ruled plain frame
12 ¾ x 8 7/8in. (32.4 x 22.6cm.)
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