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Navala Bala: a girl escapes from her lover's arms and runs to her sakhi

Attributed to: The Family of Nainsukh
Indian, Pahari
mid-19th century
Object Place: Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 19.6 x 14.4 cm (7 11/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Image: 18 x 12 cm (7 1/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2517
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

InscriptionsObverse: on top, in Devanagari, 2 line inscription (to be read).

Reverse: middle, in Devanagari, 2 line inscription shimmering through (to be read).
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)