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Source Description
The god Shiva is shown in a dancing pose with five heads and eighteen arms that bear weapons and ritual instruments. His hair is piled up like a hermit’s on his upper heads, in front of which a crescent moon appears. The wavy white line at the right is the Ganges River, which descends from Shiva’s hair when he is residing in his mountain hideaway.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
18285
label
Cosmic Shiva
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
18285
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Cosmic Shiva
description
The god Shiva is shown in a dancing pose with five heads and eighteen arms that bear weapons and ritual instruments. His hair is piled up like a hermit’s on his upper heads, in front of which a crescent moon appears. The wavy white line at the right is the Ganges River, which descends from Shiva’s hair when he is residing in his mountain hideaway.
provenance
John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2002, by gift.
date
1825-1850
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Manuscripts & Rare Books
miniatures (paintings)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
21
height
14.6
dimensionsRaw
H: 8 1/4 x W: 5 3/4 in. (21 x 14.6 cm); Framed H: 20 1/8 × W: 15 3/16 × D: 1 1/4 in. (51.12 × 38.58 × 3.18 cm)
Source extras
med
opaque watercolor on paper
creator_ids
2191
collection_ids
INT
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
mediaId
0a1bd55fec183daf