Rare Paintings
 11 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Article:
Look at art intently, and with patience
By Shoba Narayan
The Mint, 2011

Prof. Brijendra Nath Goswamy is in Bangalore to deliver Tasveer Foundation’s inaugural lecture. I have been allowed to take him out for an hour. Where does one take a man who is arguably India’s foremost art h... Read More
 11 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
B.N.GOSWAMY, distinguished art historian, is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Panjab University, Chandigarh. His work covers a wide range and is regarded, especially in the area of Indian painting, as having influenced much thinking. He has been the recipient of many honours, including th... Read More
 11 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Near Attoor, in the Dindigul District - 1804

Plate 6 from the fourth set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery,' which they called 'Twenty-four Landscapes.' The views progress northwards from the far south at Cape Comorin to Srinagar in Garhwal in the Himalaya mountains. This south... Read More
 11 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Cape Comorin, taken near Calcad - 1804

Plate 1 from the fourth set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery,' which they called 'Twenty-four Landscapes.' The views progress northwards from the far south at Cape Comorin to Srinagar in Garhwal in the Himalaya mountains. 'This view...', ... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
'The Taje Mahel, Agra'. Aquatint, drawn and engraved by Thomas and William Daniell. Published Thomas Daniell, London, 1801.

Coloured aquatint by Thomas and William Daniell of the Taj Mahal at Agra, dated 1801.

This print, together with the one entitled "The Taje Mahel, Agra. Taken in the ga... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Eastern Gate of the Jumma Musjid at Delhi - 1795

Plate 1 from the first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.' The Jami Masjid of Delhi, the largest mosque in India, was built between 1644 and 1658, as the principal religious monument of the new capital of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, e... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The Chalees Satoon in the Fort of Allahabad on the River Jumna - 1795

Plate 6 from the first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.' Of all the British artists who went to India in the 18th and 19th Centuries, it is Thomas and William Daniell who are the best known. Their work gives us a v... Read More
 10 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Plate 16 of 'Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora near Aurangabad,' engraved by Thomas Daniell after the drawings of his deceased friend James Wales, which Daniell regarded as the sixth set of his 'Oriental Scenery.' This cave was started as a Buddhist monastery, but in the 8th Century wa... Read More
 8 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The Death of Bhisma from a Mahabharata
18th century
Color and gold on paper
H: 6.0 W: 13.7 cm
Punjab Hills, India

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 8 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Abhimanyu Hunting in a Forest from Mahabharata
ca. 1885
Opaque watercolor on paper
H: 30.7 W: 42.7 cm
Maharashtra, India

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 8 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Babhruvahana fights the king of the Nagas, from Mahabharata
circa 1885
Opaque watercolor on paper
H: 28.1 W: 41.6 cm
India

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 6 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Article:
How German technology shaped ritual dynamics in India.

The technique of lithographic printing was one of the greatest German inventions. This new technology not only revolutionized mass production of visual imagery in Germany and Europe as a whole, but it also had a major impact on t... Read More
 4 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Duryodhana and his brothers
Razmnama painting
ca.1598
Opaque water colour and gold on paper

This painting has been detached from an illustrated volume of the Razmnama, or Book of War, the Persian translation of the Mahabharata. This Sanskrit text was translated by order of the emperor Akbar so t... Read More
 4 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The unveiling of Draupadi, from the Mahabharata
Rajasthan, possibly Jaipur, ca. 1840
Brush drawing on paper

Drawing on paper. A scene from the Mahābhārata in two registers; in the upper register, a king is seated, leaning against a bolster, and surrounded by attendants and courtiers. In the ... Read More
 2 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
The Head of Prativeda
Painting; paint on paper. Bright colours. Scene from the Mahabharata, known as the Head of Prativeda. The two figures fight amidst a hail of arrows.

Paithan Style
Date19thC

Paithan style:
Paintings used in story-telling by itinerant bards. Typical of the Andhra Pra... Read More
 2 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 23. In this illustration of a narrative from the Mahabharata, Abhimanyu bids farewell to his wife Uttara. He is leaving for the Kurukshetra war.

Printed by: Chore Bagan Art Studio
Date: 1895 (... Read More
 2 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 18. Draupadi, the wife of all five Pandava brothers in the Mahabharata, is presented to a parcheesi game where Yudhishthira, the king of Hastinapura, had gambled away all his material wealth. He of... Read More
 2 Jun 2013 Rare Paintings
This archaic battle scene, taken from the epic Razmnameh, depicts Arjuna and Bhishma in their war chariots attacking one another from opposing sides. Charioted horses await below, while a group of horsemen, sounding a trumpet and drum, stand in the top right corner.

Artist: Bandi
Mughal styl... Read More
 28 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Sports and Pastimes of Nobility

Amusement with animals: snakes-charmer with goat, monkey and mongoose. Birds and animals, fighting-bulbuls, quails, adavats, rams, black-buck, cocks, elephants and camels.

Gentil; Manuscripts, Col J B J Gentil, Faizabad, ca. 1774. Page number 23 (Gentil numbe... Read More
 28 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Panwell Bunder by Charles Harcourt Chambers, painting, watercolour on paper, India, 1824-28

This painting depicts a road leading inland from the sea. There are camels on the road. In the distance is a landscape, sea and ships. Bullocks sit under the trees in the foreground.

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 27 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Painting; watercolour, a caravan with camels resting at an oasis in the dessert, Patna, ca. 1850.

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