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Hanuman Sets the Demon Capital on Fire

Attributed to: The Family of Nainsukh
Indian,Pahari
about 1790
Object Place: Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 26 x 36.7 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/16 in.)
Image: 20.4 x 30.8 cm (8 1/16 x 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2437
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

InscriptionsObverse: on top, in Devnagari, the number 7 and the word ni.
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)