TY  - GEN
ED  - British Library
TI  - Dhanasri Ragini: Lady kneels on a little terrace, drawing a picture of her absent lover; a maid kneels in front of her holding a saucer of pigment [slides]
U1  - Bl-JC 
CY  - London
PB  - British Library
KW  - Painting-Lucknow(India)-1780 A.D
KW  - Mogul painting
KW  - Ragamala painting
KW  - Raga, Dhanasri
KW  - Music-India
N1  - IGNCA slides collection, cross reference, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library by Toby Falk and Mildred Archer (London1981); Page 266 by 206mm; Johnson Album 30, no. 17; Inscribed on reverse in Persian: Raga Dhanasri; 158by 117mm; The style of the series is essentially a provincial or Popular Mughal style, but the precision of treatment of the leafy trees and the figure-type, particularly of the females, points to Bikaner as the place of origin. The original appearance has been altered, for the pictures are now mounted on eighteenth c. album pages and incorrect Persian identifications have been written on the reverse ,p.255
ER  -