Raja Ravi Varma: Namaankit Chitre [Famous Pictures]

S N Joshi, Raja Ravi Varma yanchi Namankit Chitre (The Renowned pictures of Raja Ravivarma), Poona: Printed at the Chitra-shala Steam Press, 1910

Ravi Varma's portrait is followed by a 4-page biography, a 1-page list of plates, and 79 paintings reproduced on as many pages with detailed descriptions; rebound in full leather while retaining inside the original dust jacket showing the image of 'Birth of Shakuntala'.
9.75 x 6.25 in (25 x 16 cm)

Chitrashala Press had been operating in Poona since 1878 printing god prints. This book, which also had a Hindi and English edition published simultaneously, is in the nature of a catalogue of the Chitrashala Press stock and may have been prompted by a desire to benefit from the interest generated in India's past among the Indian populace following the publicity about Delhi Durbar of 1911.

This was only the second book published about an Indian artist, the first also being on Ravi Varma, his biography published in Allahabad in 1903 when he was alive.

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