M0001247: Reproduction of a gouache painting described as "Vishnu sits on top and at the bottom of mount Madura in his incarnation as Kurma (tortoise,) as the gods and demons churn the ocean to retrieve the nector and other treasures" by an unknown Indian painter

Date:
19 August 1930
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/11/79
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M0001247: Reproduction of a gouache painting described as "Vishnu sits on top and at the bottom of mount Madura in his incarnation as Kurma (tortoise,) as the gods and demons churn the ocean to retrieve the nector and other treasures" by an unknown Indian painter. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Indian print of "The Churning of the Ocean"

Description

Reproduction of a gouache painting described as "Vishnu sits on top and at the bottom of mount Madura in his incarnation as Kurma (tortoise,) as the gods and demons churn the ocean to retrieve the nector and other treasures" by an unknown Indian painter. The reproduction is from the original gouache painting held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: V0045875, M0008943

Publication/Creation

19 August 1930

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 11.2 x 15.2 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 577284i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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