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Nala sprinkling Damayanati's companions with water

Indian, Pahari
about 1790–1800
Object Place: Nainsukh family, Punjab Hills, India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor, ink, perhaps with graphite, on paper, unfinished
Dimensions Overall: 29.4 x 40 cm (11 9/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
Image: 22.4 x 33.5 cm (8 13/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2407
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors

InscriptionsObserve in the middle on the top the number "83" inscribed in devanagari script.
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased 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)