{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O68212"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O68212/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011EN6912/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011EN6912/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2011EN6912","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AH4084","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O68212/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O68212","accessionNumber":"IM.414-1923","objectType":"Painting","titles":[{"title":"Ravana, King of Lanka, with bow","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Ravana, King of Lanka, with bow. At his feet lie amputated arms, legs and heads. From a series of 100 drawings of Hindu deities created in South India.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"gouache","id":"AAT70114"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"x30598"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Gouache on watermarked paper","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Hinduism","id":"THES48941"},{"text":"Indian Company Paintings","id":"THES49045"}],"styles":[{"text":"Company","id":"AAT18959"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2011EN6912","2006AH4084"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES403454"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Painting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Tiruchchirappalli","id":"x30947"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1825","earliest":"1820-01-01","latest":"1829-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"22","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"18","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Ravanah a giant having obtained a gift from the God that when his head, hands and feet cut off by his enemy they should grow again so when Streeramah cutting off his heads they again came at the same time.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"Inscribed with titles in Telugu, with broken English translation.","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed with titles in Telugu, with broken English translation."},{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"watermarked paper dated 1820"}],"objectHistory":"Purchased from Mr A. Churchill, 1923.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Company painting; Ravana, King of Lanka, with bow, Trichinopoly, ca. 1825.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Archer, Mildred. <u> Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period</u> \r\nVictoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 29 p. ISBN 0944142303\r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Ravana","id":"N749"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"bow","id":"AAT36999"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IM.414-1923"],"accessionNumberNum":"414","accessionNumberPrefix":"IM","accessionYear":1923,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2002-10-02","availableToBook":true}}