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Withered tree
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Description
In this text classifying the good and bad omens encountered in daily life or in dreams, a blighted or withered tree is held to be a most inauspicious omen. The artist gives his tree an appropriate ominous starkness.
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- Series
- Book of Omens
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Rajasthan › south Rajasthan › Udaipur (place of creation)
- Date
- 1720 - 1725
- Material and technique
- gouache on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 55.9 x 40.6 cm (height x width)
page 25.8 x 21.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.22
Location
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- currently in research collection
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