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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RASIKAPRIYA SERIES: A SAKHI CONVEYS A DISTRAUGHT RADHA'S MESSAGE TO KRISHNA
KANGRA, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a sakhi conveys a message to Krishna who patiently waits outside the walls of a palace, while a distraught Radha, clad in green, is depicted in her bed chamber, 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, a numeral to the upper left corner, now rubbed, the reverse with 8ll. of verse in red and black devanagari script, with protective stamped and numbered fly-leaf
12 ¾ x 8 7/8in. (32.4 x 22.6cm.)