Painting
- Description
- Vishnu appearing as a man-lion or Lord Narasimha. He has four arms which means that this deity is connected to both spiritual and physical worlds. A disk, chakra, and a conch shell, shanka, are held in his hands. He is incarnated to kill the demon Hiranyakashipan,and to save his devotee Prahlada.
- Accession Loan No.
- 128/1998/3
- Collection Class
- Archives and images
- Common Name
- painting
- Simple Name
- painting on mica
- Full Name
- Hindu deity: possibly an avatar of Vishnu
- Dimensions
- whole W 162 mm; whole height 118 mm
- Production Year Low
- late 19th century
- Production Year High
- early 20th century
- Production Town
- Thanjavur
- Production County
- Tamil Nadu
- Production Country
- India
- Production Area Region
- South Asia
- Production Continent
- Asia
- Family Group
- Material
- mica; pigment (oil-based)
- Function Name
- souvenir
- Function Detail
- This painting on mica was made in Thanjavur, India in the late Nineteenth or early part of the Twentieth Century as a souvenir for visiting tourists. It is part of a collection depicting various landscape scenes and images of Hindu and Muslim religious celebrations.
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Collection Continent
- Asia
