Vasantsena

Oleograph on paper

20 x 13.75 in (51 x 35 cm)

The work has a printed inscription on the lower right stating that the print was printed at the Ravi Varma Press, Karla, Lonavala

This work will be shipped unframed

This oleograph published by the Ravi Varma Press depicts Vasantasena. Vasantasena is the protagonist of the iconic Sanskrit play Mricchakatika (The Little Clay Cart) written by Sudraka. Mricchakatika was translated in 1826 as The Toy Cart by Horace Hayman Wilson, a surgeon in the East India Company. In 1847, the text was translated by the German scholar A.F Stenzler, and published in Bonn. She has been depicted by many prominent artists, including Abanindranath Tagore, and was made a household name in the Pre-Independence era by Raja Ravi Varma through this oleograph.