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Drawing and partial pounce from a dispersed series of Nayika with maids

Indian, Rajasthani
18th century
Object Place: Jaipur, Rajasthan, Northern India

Medium/Technique Stencil: ink and light color on paper pricked for pouncing, one part dusted with charcoal
Dimensions Overall 29.5 x 18.6 cm (11 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.3040
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors

InscriptionsObverse, in top margin, three-line inscription in Devanagari, 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)