TWO KISHANGARH DRAWINGS: KRISHNA AND RADHA ON A DAYBED WITH FEMALE ATTENDANTS; A NAYIKA PLAYING THE VEENA; RAJASTHAN, KISHANGARH, LATE 18TH CENTURY; AND A PAGE OF THE POETRY OF NAGARI DAS, 19TH CENTURY

The three items in this lot are as follows:

A: A drawing of Krishna and Radha seated on a daybed with female attendants. This is typical of the lyrical and mannered style of the Kishangarh school in the mid to late 18th century. The reverse bears another drawing of a nayika.
B: A drawing of a female musician playing the vina. This drawing again shows the stylized facial and physical features typical of the Kishangarh School.
C: A page of the poetry of Raja Savant Singh of Kishangarh, who wrote under the name Nagari Das. He and his father were devotees of the Vallabhacarya sect of Krishna worship and in 1757 he retreated to the holy site of Vrindavan. The repeating lotus-shaped elements containing the roundels of verse on this page are the same shape as the stylized eyes of male and female figures in the drawings.