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Megha Raga
Indian, Pahari
about 1825
Object Place: Kangra style, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 24.5 x 15 cm (9 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Image: 24.5 x 15 cm (9 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Image: 24.5 x 15 cm (9 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2556
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsIn the front, there are lot of inscriptions in devnagri script all over. The top left of the painting has "1 and Prathum raga megh" written in devnagri.
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)