File:A meeting at a temple gateway in Mathura.jpg

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Edwin Lord Weeks: A Meeting at a Temple Gateway in Mathura  wikidata:Q20058400 reasonator:Q20058400
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Edwin Lord Weeks  (1849–1903)  wikidata:Q3735411 s:en:Author:Edwin Lord Weeks
 
Edwin Lord Weeks
Alternative names
E. L. Weeks; Edwin L. Weeks; e. l. weeks; Weeks; e.l. weeks; ed. weeks
Description American painter
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) was an American artist.
Date of birth/death 1849 Edit this at Wikidata 17 November 1903 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston, Massachusetts Paris
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creator QS:P170,Q3735411
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Title
A Meeting at a Temple Gateway in Mathura
label QS:Len,"A Meeting at a Temple Gateway in Mathura"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre Orientalism Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Lot Notes This is an imposing figurative painting within an elaborate architectural framework, likely based on studies Edwin Lord Weeks executed during his first expedition to India in 1882-83. Somewhat unusual for the artist, the setting is Hindu, a pink sandstone temple probably dedicated to Vishnu, as were many temples in the city of Muttra (today known as Mathura). Muttra, a small city near Delhi, was then, as today, a center of the cult of Krishna and a sacred city. As Weeks termed it, '[a]n ancient City and place of Pilgrimage.' (Empire of India Exhibition, Illustrated Official Catalogue, London, 1895, p. 210).."
Date circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 71.1 cm (27.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 57.2 cm (22.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+71.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+57.2U174728
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Description 19th-century painting with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location
label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location"
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Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Auction: Christie's, Live Auction 1779, New York, 23 April 2006, Property from the Collection of Ambassador Charles R. Crane, lot 10
Inscriptions signed 'E. L. Weeks' with the artist's Moghul device (lower left)
References Literature Weeks, Edwin Lord: From the Black Sea through Persia and India, New York: 1895; related illustration p. 334.
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Christie's, LotFinder: entry 4695952

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1400_1499/krishnabhakti/mathura/mathura.html

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