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Worship of the goddess Devi
| Content Provider | The Heritage Lab |
|---|---|
| Artist | Anonymous |
| Organization | Rijks Museum |
| Spatial Coverage | Mewar Rajasthan |
| Temporal Coverage | Circa 1720 |
| Description | The goddess Devi sits on a lotus flower in the middle of the scene against a blue sky, behind her two turned elephants who sprinkle her with coiled trunks, on either side of her a servant with a trident, the left servant is dark, the right light colored, both have four arms, for the right servant a child crawling towards the goddess in a golden robe; at the bottom of the green meadow a company of servants sits two by two around an altar, here again two four-amed servants in different colours, but now the lighter one on the left and the darker one on the right, elephants playing in the foreground among lotus flowers in a pond; on the right comes a royally dressed party with hands folded in prayer, a monarch who is preceded by two children and followed by two women. A narrow band in red around the image; minor damage. |
| 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 | Animal Children Elephant Flower Goddess Mewar Rajasthan Rijks Museum Royal Tree Water Woman Worship Painting Rajput Miniature |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Painting |
