Radha Throws Axe into Pond
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Title
Radha Throws Axe into Pond
Mapping in Color Item Type Metadata
Title
Radha Throws Axe into Pond
Link
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O41601/radha-painting-unknown/
Repository
Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession Number
IS. 48-1953
Provenance
Michael Rothenstein
Parent Work
Basohli Rasamanjari
Sequential order of folio
23
Date
1660-1670
Location
Basohli, India
Size (H x W cm)
23.4x33cm
Text
On the reverse in Sanskrit: 'In the winter season, her husband having told the servant to cut the ber tree, the doe-eyed nayika dropped the axe in the water'
Paratext
Top of object in Takri : 'kria vidagdha'
'the act of the resourceful mistress'
'the act of the resourceful mistress'
Publications
Archer, W. G. Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills; a Survey and History of Pahari Miniature Painting. London, New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1973.
Ayers, J. Oriental Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1983.
Bhānudatta Miśra, et al. Basohli Paintings of the Rasamanjari. Abhinav Publications, 1981.
Swallow, D., Stronge, S., Crill, R., Koezuka, T., "The Art of the Indian Courts. Miniature Painting and Decorative Arts", Victoria & Albert Museum and NHK Kinki Media Plan, 1993.
Ayers, J. Oriental Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1983.
Bhānudatta Miśra, et al. Basohli Paintings of the Rasamanjari. Abhinav Publications, 1981.
Swallow, D., Stronge, S., Crill, R., Koezuka, T., "The Art of the Indian Courts. Miniature Painting and Decorative Arts", Victoria & Albert Museum and NHK Kinki Media Plan, 1993.
Collection
Citation
“Radha Throws Axe into Pond,” Mapping Color, accessed April 8, 2026, https://mappingcolor.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/192.