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Damayanti Dispatches the Stork to Nala
Attributed to: The Family of Nainsukh
Indian, Pahari
1780–90
Object Place: Style of Kangra, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Orange ink and graphite on primed paper
Dimensions
Overall: 24.5 x 36.0 cm (9 5/8 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2449
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsOn obverse, within the drawing, are color name inscriptions in Devanagari.
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)