2009.202.65: Composite Elephant with Monkey
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2009.202.65
- People
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Attributed to The Kota Master, Indian
- Title
- Composite Elephant with Monkey
- Other Titles
- Title: Composite Elephant
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1730
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kota
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/190470
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink and opaque watercolor over black chalk underdrawing on tan laid paper; Rajput Style, Kota School
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 23 x 25 cm (9 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1999 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.
Notes:
Object was part of temporary loan to Museum in 1999.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
- Accession Year
- 2009
- Object Number
- 2009.202.65
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The painting depicts a large composite elephant comprising of birds, animals, fish, and mythical creatures. Mounted on the elephant is a monkey rider, which holds onto a snake that acts as a rope tied around the body of the elephant. Rajput Style, Kota School.
Publication History
- Stuart Cary Welch and Kim Masteller, From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2004), pp. 154-155, no. 50
Exhibition History
- From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from SCWelch, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/2005 - 06/02/2005
- 32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/19/2018 - 11/07/2018
Verification Level
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