Lonely Krishna
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Title
Lonely Krishna
Mapping in Color Item Type Metadata
Title
Lonely Krishna
Link
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O41804/krishna-painting-unknown/
Repository
Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession Number
IS.120-1951
Provenance
Lady Rothenstein and Art Fund, Collection of William Rothenstein.
Parent Work
Basohli Rasamanjari
Sequential order of folio
110
Date
1660-1670
Location
Basholi, India
Medium
Watercolor, Gold, Beetle Wings; Paper
Size (H x W cm)
23.1 x 32.0cm
Text
On verso in Sanskrit : "My sweet-heart, whose thighs are like plantains, eyes like lotus, locks of hair like saivala, face like the moon, speech like nectar, waist like a lotus stalk, navel like a pit, fold in the belly like a stream and hands like leaves - swells in my heart. Alas! there is still no abatement of the fever in my heart."
Paratext
On recto in Takri : "He whose pati (literally husband, but here by implication, mistress) is away."
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.
Collection
Citation
“Lonely Krishna,” Mapping Color, accessed April 7, 2026, https://mappingcolor.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/213.