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Moonlight scene with Krishna and other herd-boys sporting with the milkmaids outside the city of Brindaban
Miniaturist: Unknown
Bequeathed 1946 by P.C. Manuk and Miss G.M. Coles, through the National Art Collections Fund.
Height: 175 mm
Width: 259 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1948) by Manuk, P. C. and Coles, G. M., Miss
A scene from the 'Bhagarata Purana'.
Bodycolour
White bodycolour
Ink
Gold
Support composed of paper
Watercolour : Bodycolour including white, pen and ink, gold, within drawn decorative borders, on paper
Accession number: PD.113-1948
Primary reference Number: 33348
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: PD.114-1948
Accession Number: C.88 & A-1918
Accession Number: C.9-1978
Accession Number: C.35-1984
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