Ass escaping from a sick lion
Item Overview
- Title
- Ass escaping from a sick lion
- Photographer
- Dharmpal Nanda
- Date Created
- April 1988
- Date
- 1988-04-01
- Place of Origin
- Lahore, Punjab (Pakistan)
- Collection
- AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
- Program
- Modern Endangered Archives Program
Notes
- Description
- The illustration shows the story of an ass who escapes from a sick lion.
- Contents note
- This folio belongs to the Iyar-i Danish manuscript that was housed in Bharat Kala Bhavan located in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India at the time of photography in 1988. Iyar-i danish translates to 'Touchstone of Wisdom’ and derives from Panchatantra, the collection of Sanskrit animal fables. This copy of the manuscript was painted around 1596-97 CE (AH 1005) with watercolour pigment on paper in Mughal style. It was painted in present day Lahore, Punjab province in Pakistan. This folio is the work of artist Lacchman. The dimensions of the object are 24.8 (H) x 13.7 (W) cm. The museum number of the object at the time of photography was 9069/19.
Physical Description
- Dimensions
- 2" x 2"
Keywords
- Genre
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject Geographic
- Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (India)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
illuminated manuscripts
aiyar-e-danish
Find This Item
- Repository
- American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Art and Archaeology, Gurugram, Haryana, India
- Local Identifier
- 92488
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z10d0j5w
- Archival Collection
- (778.1-778.100), Box 778.89
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- public domain
- Rights Holder
- caa.archives@aiis.edu.in
- Funding Note
- Digitization for the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides Collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.