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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: VILAVALA RAGINI
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Description
- AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: VILAVALA RAGINI
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image: 9 by 6 in. (22.9 by 15.3 cm)
- folio: 9 3/4 by 6 3/4 in. (24.7 by 17.1 cm) unframed
Catalogue Note
A lady longing to meet her beloved adjusts her earrings as she looks in the mirror. Her handmaidens gather around her as a musician plays a sarang.
Refer to Klaus Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973, pp. 58-59, pl. C17 and P. Pal, Ragamala Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, 1967, cat. 87, pp.81-82, pl. XL.