Brahma Pays Homage to Vishnu as the Village Cowherders Approach (Illustration from a Bhagavata Purana manuscript)

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Brahma Pays Homage to Vishnu as the Village Cowherders Approach
(Illustration from a Bhagavata Purana manuscript)

Place of OriginIndia

Dateabout 1760

Dimensions(Image) H: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); W: 12 in. (30.5 cm);
(Sheet) H: 7 in. (17.8 cm); W: 15 in. (38.1 cm)

MediumOpaque watercolor and gold on paper.

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund

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2004.77

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Comparative ReferencesSee also A very closely related manuscript from Nagpur dated 1763, illustrated by the same very talented painter, is in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. (See Joseph M. Dye III, The Arts of India: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 2001, no. 162, pp.370-374.)