id: 142315 accession number: 1966.143 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.143 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:15.439000 Ravana addresses Sita in the garden of Lanka, from Chapters 53 and 54 of the Aranya Kanda (Book of the Forest) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey), c. 1725. Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Guler. Gum tempera, gold, and silver on paper; painting: 55.5 x 79 cm (21 7/8 x 31 1/8 in.); overall: 56.3 x 81 cm (22 3/16 x 31 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George P. Bickford 1966.143 title: Ravana addresses Sita in the garden of Lanka, from Chapters 53 and 54 of the Aranya Kanda (Book of the Forest) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1725 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1730 current location: creditline: Gift of George P. Bickford copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Guler technique: Gum tempera, gold, and silver on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Painting: 55.5 x 79 cm (21 7/8 x 31 1/8 in.); Overall: 56.3 x 81 cm (22 3/16 x 31 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe opening date: 2016-10-21T04:00:00 The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe. Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 21, 2016-January 15, 2017). title: Indian Gallery 242 Rotation – April-November 2017 opening date: 2017-04-10T04:00:00 Indian Gallery 242 Rotation – April-November 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 10-November 6, 2017). title: Imagining Rama's Journey (Indian Painting rotation) opening date: 2023-03-10T05:00:00 Imagining Rama's Journey (Indian Painting rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-September 17, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Rajput Painting. Asia House, New York, NY (December 3, 1960-January 22, 1961).', 'opening_date': '1960-12-03T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Hindu and Muslim Art of India. Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (February 20-April 20, 1985); Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN (May 1-June 1, 1985); J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY (July 10-August 30, 1985).', 'opening_date': '1985-02-20T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Raja Raghunath Singh of Guler date: footnotes: citations: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy [1877–1947] date: footnotes: citations: George P. Bickford [1901–1991] and Clara Louise Gehring Bickford [1903–1985], Cleveland Heights, OH date: ?–1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Jain-Neubauer, Jutta. The Ramayana in Pahari Miniature Painting. Ahmedabad: LD Institute of Indology, 1981. page number: Reproduced: no. 5, plate XI, fig. 22, pp. 38-39. url: Gilbert, Rita, and William McCarter. Living with Art. New York: Alfred A Knopf, Inc., 1988. 2nd edition. page number: Reproduced: fig. 66, p. 60. url: Diane de Selliers, ed., Rāmāyaṇa. Volume V. Paris, 2011. page number: Reproduced: p. 59. url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1994. 5th edition. page number: Reproduced: p. 215, color plate 24. url: Lee, Sherman E. and George Montgomery. Rajput Painting; with an introductory essay and catalogue notes. New York: Asia House, 1960. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 73A, pp. 76-77 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 239 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n263 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 239 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n263 Archer, W. G. Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills; A Survey and History of Pahari Miniature Painting. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1973. page number: Mentioned: 1: 146 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 309 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n329 Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 113 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 172-173 url: Takac Panza, Jane "Mr. Bickford's Asian Adventures", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 05, May/June 2006 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 11 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-05/page/10 Brommer, Gerald F. Discovering Art History. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2007. page number: Reproduced: fig. 4-8 url: Goswamy, B. N. Manaku of Guler: The Life and Work of Another Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill State. New Delhi: Artibus Asiae Publishers [with] Niyogi Books, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 67, cat. 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