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Flute

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Images from the collections

Images about Flute

20 images from works
  • Taiyota, a boy from Otaheite (Tahiti), playing the nose-flute. Etching by R.B. Godfrey, 1773, after S. Parkinson.
  • Page 113: Krishna playing his flute to the cows and Radha who is immersed in the river, while an old man smoking a hookah observes. Watercolour drawing.
  • Radha and Krishna flanked by two devotees. Chromolithograph.
  • Radha and Krishna. Watercolour drawing.
  • Radha listening to Krishna's flute playing seated by a shoreline. Chromolithograph.
  • Krishna plays his flute to the gopis while a man watches from the woods. Chromolithograph.
  • Dr Samuel Johnson reading the manuscript of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The vicar of Wakefield', while a bailiff waits with the landlady. Mezzotint by S. Bellin, 1845, after E.M. Ward.
  • Krishna declaring his love for Radha via a confidante. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Krishna playing the flute to cowgirls. Chromolithograph, 1882.
  • Page 154: Krishna playing his flute under a tree with two devotees. Gouache drawing.
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Works from the collections

27 works

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    A flute player possibly Krishna. Ink drawing.

    | Reference: 27975i
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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
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    Page 113: Krishna playing his flute to the cows and Radha who is immersed in the river, while an old man smoking a hookah observes. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 27340i
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    Krishna playing his flute to two cowgirls and two worshippers. Transfer lithograph.

    | Reference: 25940i
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    A Japanese lady flautist standing with a girl among small pine trees. Watercolour.

    | Date: 1860 | Reference: 23609i
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Related topics

Krishna (Hindu deity)
Hindu gods
Hindu mythology
Radha (Hindu deity)
Hindu goddesses
Cowgirls
Cows
Religion
Costume
Nudity

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