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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Nationality: Asian; Indian Sub-Continent; Indian Creator Dates/Places: India Creator Active Place: India Creator Name-CRT: India, Pahari, Guler, c. 1725 Title: Sita in the Garden of Lanka, From the Ramayana epic of Valmiki Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1723 Creation End Date: 1727 Creation Date: c. 1725 Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: color and gold on paper Dimensions: Image: 55.5cm x 79cm, Overall: 56.3cm x 81cm AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1966.143 Credit Line: Gift of George P. Bickford Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Context: This page comes from a well-known set of Pahari illustrations of the Ramayana epic. It relates in colorful terms the story of the abduction of the beautiful Sita, Rama's wife, by the demon Ravana, the ruler of Lanka. He kept her captive until she was rescued by Rama, with great assistance from the monkey-god, Hanuman, with his army. Sita, who represents feminine virtue, is shown here on the right in the garden of a fortified castle of Ravana, surrounded by a moat and a high wall. She faces her many-armed and -headed abductor, accompanied by his wives, guarded by several demons. In agreement with the method of continuous narration, popular in Indian paintings, Ravana is shown again on the left, seated inside his castle, in conference with his demons. This famous set of unusually large paintings, many unfinished, is known through several surviving pages and many more partially colored or uncolored drawings. Most are in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, while individual paintings are in theMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the British Museum in London, a private collection, and this page in Cleveland. The Prince of Wales Museum in Bombay has nineteen uncolored drawings from this set. The Cleveland page has a dull-red border with some damage to its left side and lower border that partially extends into the water of the moat. There is also some loss of pigment in front of the Sita figure. S.C. AMICA ID: CMA_.1966.143 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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