- RAVI VARMA, THE INDIAN ARTIST
By Ramananda Chatterjee
Allahabad: Indian Press
No date. But British Library copy attributes it to 1903. No author but Partha Mitter, in "Art and Nationalism in Colonial India" [Oxford University Press: 1994], in the bibliography on p.436, attributes it to Ramananda Chatterjee, which is plausible since he was editor of 'Prabasi' magazine in Allahabad at this time and owned the Indian Press. Mitter dates the book to 1902.
pp. 15, v + 15 plates including portrait of Ravi Varma, Text printed within red double-rule border, All plates are monochromes in various hues and with tissue guards.
The first book on an Indian artist and the only work on Ravi Varma published in his lifetime.
Bound in golden cloth with the title embossed on cover.
Endpapers patterned in golden flowers.
Size: 11 x 9inches
- RAJPUT - A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
Devoted to Rajput History
December 1911
Published in London
With 3 prints by RAJA RAVI VARMA
pp. 44
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