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Krishna fights the serpent Kalya while four shepherd boys watch
| Content Provider | The Heritage Lab |
|---|---|
| Artist | Anonymous |
| Organization | Rijks Museum |
| Spatial Coverage | Mewar Rajasthan |
| Temporal Coverage | 1615 - 1640 |
| Description | On a sheet with text in Indian script, a river is painted almost at the bottom, which flows to the top right in a square inset; in the river swims the black snake with a broad head from which eight snake heads protrude fan-shaped; Krishna is entwined by the serpent while on the bank four naked shepherd boys look on; the background is light yellow. 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 lower right corner is partly torn; on the right an applied strip, left and right on the leaf edge two circles with writing and between the outer edge and the vertical trim also writing and red dots. |
| 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 Gopas Krishna Manuscript Mewar Rajasthan River Snake Tree Painting Rajput Miniature Rijks Museum |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Painting |
