- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1961.136
- Title
- White Lotus (Nymphaea lotus L.)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1800
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, West Bengal
- Period
- British period
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216088
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 70.49 x 57.63 cm (27 3/4 x 22 11/16 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Eric Schroeder
- Accession Year
- 1961
- Object Number
- 1961.136
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Stuart Cary Welch, Room for Wonder : Indian Painting During the British Period, 1760-1880, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts (New York, NY, 1978), p. 50 - 51, cat. 14
Pratapaditya Pal and Vidya Dehejia, From Merchants to Emperors: British Artists and India 1757-1930, Cornell University Press (New York, NY, 1986), pp 169, fig. 177
Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart, Shambhala Publications (Boston, 2004), cover, back jacket flap
- Exhibition History
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Indian Painting from the Colonial Period, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1983 - 03/06/1983
Life at Court: Art for India's Rulers, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 11/20/1985 - 02/09/1986; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 03/14/1986 - 05/09/1986
Flora and Fauna of India, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/02/1987 - 09/06/1987
32Q: 2590 South and Southeast Asia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/21/2015 - 11/03/2015
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