Rare are the sketches of plants and landscapes by Raja Ravi Varma. In this sketch, Raja Ravi Varma sketches a eggplant and a landscape. This is an important sketch as it clearly demonstrates that Raja Ravi Varma did not delineate botanica with care or interest in comparison to faces and humans. Flowers, fruit, vegetables, landscapes and other decorative details were more the domain of C Raja Raja Varma, the brother of Raja Ravi Varma.
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