Kishangarh
Painting : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 43/edited by Usha Bhatia. New
Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1998, $22.Kishangarh
Painting : Lalit Kala Series Portfolio No. 43/edited by Usha Bhatia. New
Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1998, $22.
Contents: Plate I: Bani Thani—Radha: Kishangarh Darbar. Artist probably Nihal Chand. Circa A.D. 1735-1757. 19 x 14 ins.
Plate II: A Courtly Paradise: Kishangarh Darbar. Artist Nihal Chand. A.D. 1735-1748. 14 x 11 ins.
Plate III: The Boat of Love: National Museum. New Delhi, Artist Nihal Chand. A.D. 1735-1748. 16 x 12 ins.
Plate IV: Portrait of Raja Sahasmal: Kishangarh Darbar. Circa A.D. 1725. Same size.
Plate V: Sanjhi Lila : Kishangarh Darbar. Here ascribed to Nihal Chand. Circa 1735-1748 A.D. 10 x 13 ins.
Plate VI: Krishna Dancing with Gopis: Kishangarh Darbar. Illustration to the Gita-Govinda. A.D. 1820. Same size.
"Our knowledge of the various schools of Rajasthani painting has greatly increased in recent years. The discovery of the Kishangarh school is associated with the name of the late Eric Dickinson, one time Professor of English at the Mayo College, Lahore. His ambition to bring out a monograph on the subject with the present writer was thwarted by his untimely death in 1951. However, in 1959 the Lalit Kala Akademi published a beautiful monograph entitled "Kishangarh Painting" by Eric Dickinson and Karl Khandalavala as a fitting tribute to his discovery."