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Krishna fights the serpent Kaliya
| Content Provider | The Heritage Lab |
|---|---|
| Artist | Anonymous |
| Organization | Rijks Museum |
| Spatial Coverage | Mewar Rajasthan |
| Temporal Coverage | 1614 - 1640 |
| Description | On a sheet with text in Indian script, a river is painted between the text, which flows to the top right in a square inset; in the river swims the black serpent with a broad head from which, fan-shaped, protrude eight serpent heads; on the bank two figures, one of which dives from a tree branch on the snake to kill it and the second remains on the branch, both figures are blue; a number of fish in the river, the tree on the bank stands against a dark red background. The text is in black with some orange letters, numbers and words, at the bottom a piece in dark red; the whole is trimmed vertically with a narrow red trim in double framing lines and rectangular trimmed in green, yellow and orange watercolor by hand; leaf edge on the left is torn and the top left corner is partly torn off; a strip has been added to the right. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication |
| Use Rights URL | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed |
| Subject Keyword | Calligraphy Krishna Manuscript Mewar Rajasthan River Snake Tree Painting Rajput Miniature Rijks Museum |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Painting |
