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Painted woman in a red and gold sari, bare-chested, tossing a red ball above her head against a cloudy blue sky.

Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

A woman with long black hair and pearl necklaces, bare-chested and wrapped below the waist in a red and gold sari, tosses a red ball with one raised arm. She floats among soft clouds against a pale blue sky, in a painted chromolithograph with a signature at lower left.

Artist
Raja Ravi Varma
Date
[1896]
Medium
Chromolithographs
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2920 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1896.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

Español: Tilottama jugando con una pelota roja en el cielo

Una mujer de cabello negro y largo, con collares de perlas, con el torso desnudo y envuelta de la cintura para abajo en un sari rojo y dorado, lanza una pelota roja con un brazo en alto. Flota entre nubes suaves sobre un cielo azul pálido, en una cromolitografía con firma en la esquina inferior izquierda.

Português: Tilottama brincando com uma bola vermelha no céu

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