The Victoria and Albert Museum's own collection API record for "Vyasa," a Kalighat-style painting in watercolour and tin alloy on cardboard, Kolkata, ca. 1890. The record's own physical description reads "the sage Vyasa with attendants," its structured content-person tagging names Vyasa directly, and the painting's own Bengali inscription is transliterated by the museum as "byas muni," accession number IS.360-1961.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The holding museum's own collection API record for the accessioned object, the strongest available record for its Kalighat provenance and accession number, its own content-person tagging and translated Bengali inscription both naming Vyasa directly. Citation
PublisherVictoria and Albert Museum
URLhttps://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O432495/
Source TypeMuseum
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Associated With
This source names Bengali directly: "Vyasa directly, and the painting's own Bengali inscription is transliterated by the museum as "byas muni," accession number IS.360-1961."
This source names Kolkata directly: "and tin alloy on cardboard, Kolkata, ca."
Vyasa, Figures This source names Vyasa directly: "own collection API record for "Vyasa," a Kalighat-style painting in watercolour and tin alloy on cardboard, Kolkata, ca."
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 5 claims: 1 well-attested, 4 holds.
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