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Description: | Water-colour drawing of the Holi festival, by an anonymous artist working in the Lucknow style, dated c. 1800.
Holi is a very colorful Hindu festival celebrated at the end of the winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month Phalguna (February/March). During the celebrations participants jump over bonfires the preceding night and on the day itself they throw coloured water and powder at each other. In this view, a man who is garlanded and crowned with shoes is being carried on a reversed charpoy by a dancing and singing crowd, accompanied by drums. A man in the foreground gathers dust to throw at him and a broom, in place of a peacock-feather fan, is waved behind him. Some members of the crowd wield swords and an ascetic carries a bowl of fire. In the background is a gateway and a crenellated wall. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Anonymous | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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