Radha manifesting the effect of love's separation from Krishna, page from a Rasikapriya series of Keshavadasa

Kasam Ahmad

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Caption

Kasam Ahmad. Radha manifesting the effect of love's separation from Krishna, page from a Rasikapriya series of Keshavadasa, 1749. Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 5/16 in. (26.0 x 18.6 cm) image: 7 5/8 x 4 13/16 in. (19.4 x 12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Anonymous gift, 81.192.4. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Asian Art

Title

Radha manifesting the effect of love's separation from Krishna, page from a Rasikapriya series of Keshavadasa

Date

1749

Geography

Place made: Rajasthan, India

Medium

Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 5/16 in. (26.0 x 18.6 cm) image: 7 5/8 x 4 13/16 in. (19.4 x 12.2 cm)

Inscriptions

Recto, in top left margin. In Sanskrit, in black ink, in Devanagari script: Radha Manifesting Love's Separation Verso, at top of page. In black ink, in Devanagari script: The works of Kasam, son of Ahmad, Samvat 1886 [A.D. 1749]/Twelfth day of the bright half of the month of Kartik/A page of Rasikapriya. (Trans. V. Desai)

Credit Line

Anonymous gift

Accession Number

81.192.4

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