Travels with Rani

Zarina American, born India

2008

Not on view

This pair of prints traces the real and imagined journeys in India of Zarina and her older sister Rani. One image articulates place-names, and the other offers an abstracted outline of the route. In both works the shape of India can be vaguely discerned, as the sisters' travels extended from Aligarh in the north to the southern tip of the country. Zarina based the woodcut on a map of Indian railways, tracing the design onto a woodblock (in reverse), carving it by hand, and then printing it in etching ink. For the intaglio print, a professional calligrapher in Pakistan wrote the letters, which were pasted individually onto a translucent paper. The artist then had a plate made photographically and faced in steel in order to create the print.

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Title: Travels with Rani
Artist: Zarina (American, born Aligarh, India 1937–2020 London)
Date: 2008
Medium: Travels with Rani I: intaglio printed in black on Arches Cover buff paperTravels with Rani II: woodcut printed in black on Okawara paper and mounted on Arches Cover buff paper
Dimensions: Sheet size:
H. 24 in. (61 cm)
W. 20 in. (50.8 cm)

Image size:
H. 14.5 in. (36.8 cm)
W. 13 in. (33 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Zarina R. Hashmi, 2026
Object Number: 2026.140.2
Rights and Reproduction: © Zarina
Curatorial Department: Islamic Art

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