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Devagiri Ragini, from a Ragamala series

Indian, Pahari
About 1750
Object Place: Bilaspur, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Overall: 25 x 19.6 cm (9 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Image: 20.8 x 15.3 cm (8 3/16 x 6 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.3218
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsObverse: at top, in Takri, line identifying the subject. (to be read)

Reverse: middle, roman numeral for "7"
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)