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Painter or scribe
Follower of: Purkhu
Indian, Pahari
about 1800
Object Place: Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor with graphite on paper, unfinished
Dimensions
Overall: 20.2 x 12.3 cm (7 15/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2725
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsObserve: in the middle an inscription in Takri. Translated by BNG: "Manaku chater(a) balaur d(a)" [Manaku painter of Balaur]
Reverse: a verse written in devnagari.
Reverse: a verse written in devnagari.
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)