2009.202.59: A Row of Sadhus

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.202.59

Title

A Row of Sadhus

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1765

Places

Creation Place: South Asia, India, Himachal Pradesh, Guler

Culture

Indian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/190857

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and red-brown inks and gold on beige paper

Dimensions

16.5 x 23 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/16 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 long-term 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

2009.202.59

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 204-205, no. 73

Exhibition History

• Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part II, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/26/1994 - 03/05/1995
• 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

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