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King Dasaratha finds Queen Kaikeyi collapsed on a tile floor. This represents a scene from the Ramayana where Kaikeyi demands that Dasaratha vanquish Rama from Ayodhya, and is a print from a Raja Ravi Varma oil painting.
Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour oleograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 76.
Printed by: Ravi Varma Press
1895
Calcutta
An oleograph, also called a chromolithograph, is a colour lithograph produced by preparing a separate stone by hand for each colour to be used and printing one colour in a register over another. The term is most often used in reference to commercial prints. Sometimes as many as 30 stones were used for a single print. The technique was pioneered in the 1830s but came into wide commercial use in the 1860s.
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Yay Subbiah Yadalam I am reciving notifications from RBSI ! Indu Lal Vijay M Lal
Exclusive,- possessing outstanding quality of polychromolitho printing perfect registration of more the 16 colors . seems like modern PHOTO litho - mineral dye in 1895 - not synthetic, fine shading dots made by hand.
Jyothidaas Kv
such beautiful detailing! A treat!
Ugly as sin!
Suzanne Hayasaki
I saw this earlier. It is beautiful.
This picture is very special. In this Raja Dashratha is with mayur pankh.(peacock feather) No one from Ram's clan ever used mayur pankh in mukut. The lady on the floor looks like some english lady, not Indian. Upper part do not compliment with lower part. When lady is lying on flòor, why the feet of Dashrath not visible. May be I am wrong but this painting look like a combination of two paintings...?????
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