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Raja Mandhata as a musical mode
ca. 1690
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on paper
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- H x W (sheet): 21.3 × 20.9 cm (8 3/8 × 8 1/4 in)
- Culture
- Himalayan peoples
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
The musical mode Himal is embodied as Raja Mandhata, this manuscript’s patron. Shown splendidly dressed and seated in a grove with two birds perched on his hand, the king is an emblem of refinement.
