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Nala and Damayanti viewing the full moon

Attributed to: The Family of Nainsukh
Indian, Pahari
about 1790–1800
Object Place: Kangra style, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink and light color on primed paper
Dimensions Overall: 29.2 x 39.6 cm (11 1/2 x 15 9/16 in.)
Image: 22.4 x 33.3 cm (8 13/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2420
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors

InscriptionsObserve in the middle on the top the number "112" inscribed in devanagari script.
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)