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Mugdha Abhisarika Nayika (The Young Heroine Who Goes to Meet Her Lover at an Appointed Place)

Indian, Pahari
about 1730–40
Object Place: Jammu area or Mankot, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions Overall: 21.3 x 30.6 cm (8 3/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
Image: 18.6 x 28.6 cm (7 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.3115
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsReverse: on top, in Takri, 2 line inscription ( 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)