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View full screenPainting, gouache on paper, depicting Krishna swallowing the forest fire and saving the cattle and cowherds, from the Bhagavata Purana, with an inscription on the reverse: Asia, South Asia, India, Pahari, late 18th century
A.1960.106
Pahari, India, South Asia
Late 18th century
Gouache on paper, with a protective cover sheet with 'P.45' handwritten in one corner and red border. On the reverse of the painting there is an inscription in black and red ink, Sanskrit text in nagri characters.
Depicted: Krishna
Previous owner: Smith, F.K., Mrs, 1960 (fl.)
Bhagavata Purana
Krishna the Divine Lover, Lausanne, 1982, pp. 46 - 48, fig. 45 for 18th c. Chamba miniature with same subject matter