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Brahma

Indian, Pahari
about 1700
Object Place: Probably Nurpur, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions Overall: 14 x 9.8 cm (5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.)
Image: 13.4 x 8.8 cm (5 1/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2766
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsReverse: at bottom, in Devnagari ?, 2.5 line inscription, bala 87, Bhrameji.
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)