Painting
This is a depiction of possibly a festival called Muharram in southern India. The Mourning of Muharram is an important period of mourning in Islam, taking place in Muharram which is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is also called the Remembrance of Muharram.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 128/1998/4
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Archives and images
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- mica | pigment (oil-based) | | |
- Common Name
- painting
- Simple Name
- painting on mica
- Period Classification
- late 19th/early 20th century
- Production Town
- Thanjavur
- Production County
- Tamil Nadu
- Production Country
- India
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- late 19th century
- Production Year High
- early 20th century
