Title

Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift), c1850-1870. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift), c1850-1870. After his banishment from the kingdom, Vessantara is accompanied into the forest by his wife, Maddi, and their two children. Traveling in an ornamented chariot, they meet some brahmins who ask them for the horses and chariot. After giving the horses and chariot away, the family proceeds on foot. In this scene, Vessantara is pouring water into the hands of a brahmin as he gives the chariot away.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B16_222

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,1Mb (3,3Mb) / 12,5in x 16,5in / 3739 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel transport transportation forest exterior outdoors woman women woman people man boy boys child children girl girls man men Asian Asia family religious father arts painting religion Buddhist Buddhism frame fatherhood parent art guy Thailand south east asia continent museum journey color golden decoration decorative gold Hinduism gift present location gilt century horse drawn gilded material textiles story fabric giving generosity cloth travellers traveller literature Thai textile gilding concept pigment decorated dad Southeast Asia four people framed chariot horse-drawn road Transport decorative arts Colour 19th century Siam Theravada 1860s Brahman nineteenth century Southeast Asian 1850s banish banishment brahmin exile exiled horse-drawn vehicle TGN generous outside buddhists portrait horsedrawn South-east Asia Jataka Unknown banished Walters Art Museum Vessantara Jataka jali Heritage Art 19th-century Kanha Maddi Vessantara paint on cloth gilding