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Cowgirls

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  • Krishna stealing the cowgirls clothes and watching them bathe in the river below. Chromolithograph.
  • Radha and Krishna. Watercolour drawing.
  • The gopis complaining to Yasoda about Krishna's pranks. Chromolithograph.
  • Krishna plays his flute to the gopis while a man watches from the woods. Chromolithograph.
  • Krishna seated in a tree above a river with the gopis' clothes and making the gopis plead for their garments. Chromolithograph.
  • Two old walnut trees (Juglans regia) growing by a country lane and sheltering some cows and their minders. Lithograph after G. Barnard, c. 1849.
  • Krishna playing the flute to cowgirls. Chromolithograph, 1882.
  • Krishna playing with four cowgirls at a well. Chromolithograph.
  • Radha and Krishna. Gouache drawing.
  • Radha and Krishna on a single lotus within an "Om" sign surrounded by rondels of scenes of Krishna's life. Coloured lithograph.
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  • view Krishna sitting in a tree with all the gopis clothes while they naked in the water, beg for their garments. Chromolithograph after Ravi Varma.
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    Krishna sitting in a tree with all the gopis clothes while they naked in the water, beg for their garments. Chromolithograph after Ravi Varma.

    Ravi Varma, 1848-1906 | Reference: 26512i
  • view Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.
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    Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.

    | Reference: 26461i
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    Krishna playing his flute to two cowgirls and two worshippers. Transfer lithograph.

    | Reference: 25940i
  • view Radha and Krishna. Watercolour drawing.
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    Radha and Krishna. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 26126i
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    Ram mas dal: Krishna dancing with the cowgirls. Transfer lithograph.

    | Reference: 25939i
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