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Mahima requests that Hamir protect him no longer

Attributed to: The Family of Nainsukh
Indian, Pahari
first quarter 19th century (about 1800–25)
Object Place: Kangra or Guler, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink on primed paper
Dimensions Overall: 25.5 x 34 cm (10 1/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Image: 21.1 x 29.4 cm (8 5/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2424
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings

InscriptionsObverse: at top, in Devanagari, page number "5".
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)