Krishna Declares His Innocence, an illustration from book 10 of a Bhagavata Purana series Artist: Unknown

ca. 1760–65

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions

without mounting: 10 3/8 × 14 13/16 in. (26.4 × 37.6 cm)
with mounting: 17 11/16 × 21 5/8 in. (45 × 55 cm)

Credit Line

The Vera M. and John D. MacDonald, B.A. 1927, Collection, Gift of Mrs. John D. MacDonald

Accession Number

2001.138.33

Geography

Basohli, India

Culture

Indian, Punjab Hills, Guler

Period

Rajput States

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Vera M. MacDonald and John D. MacDonald, Boston, Mass., by 2001; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

histories (visual works), human figures (visual works), illustration

Inscriptions

Bhagavata Purana Book 10 Chapter 56 Verse 18\r\n18. The people found Prasena and the horse that had been killed by the lion in the forest. Then, on the side of the mountain, they found the lion that had been killed by the bear.\r\n\r\n--translated by Edwin F. Bryant , "Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God: Srimad Bhagavata Purana Book X."\r\n\r\nSanskrit text in devanagari in black and red; four lines of Takri script on back.

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