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Devi attacking Mahisasura

Indian, Pahari
about 1825
Object Place: Kangra or Guler, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink on paper with graphite
Dimensions Overall: 19.5 x 27.7 cm (7 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2594
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

InscriptionsObverse: various places inscriptions in Devanagari.

Reverse: at bottom, in Devanagari, three lines (to be read). Also further smaller inscriptions.
ProvenanceBy 1916, probably sold by Radha Krishna Bharany (dealer, b. about 1877 - d. 1942), Amritsar, India, to Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947), Needham, MA; 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)