Brahma Worships Krishna, Page from a Dispersed Ramayana Series

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Caption

Indian. Brahma Worships Krishna, Page from a Dispersed Ramayana Series, ca. 1800. Opaque watercolor on paper, sheet: 9 3/8 x 15 in. (23.8 x 38.1 cm) image: 8 x 13 5/8 in. (20.3 x 34.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Doris and Ed Wiener, 75.203.3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Asian Art

Culture

Indian

Title

Brahma Worships Krishna, Page from a Dispersed Ramayana Series

Date

ca. 1800

Geography

Place made: Odisha (Orissa), India

Medium

Opaque watercolor on paper

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

sheet: 9 3/8 x 15 in. (23.8 x 38.1 cm) image: 8 x 13 5/8 in. (20.3 x 34.6 cm)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Four lines of text closing the 13th chapter of the first half of the Bhagavata Purana. In black ink, in Devanagari script In image, above erect figure: Krishna; above prostrate frigure: Brahma; in text band below image, at left: 66

Credit Line

Gift of Doris and Ed Wiener

Accession Number

75.203.3

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