1974.9: Madhava Swooning before Kamakandala, Folio from a Madhavanala and Kamakandala series

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1974.9

Title

Madhava Swooning before Kamakandala, Folio from a Madhavanala and Kamakandala series

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Madhavanala and Kamakandala

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1840

Places

Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kota

Culture

Indian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/216328

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions

30.8 × 23.5 cm (12 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Kenneth Galbraith

Accession Year

1974

Object Number

1974.9

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Stuart Cary Welch and Mark Zebrowski, A Flower from Every Meadow: Indian Paintings from American Collections, exh. cat., New York Graphic SocietyNew York Graphic Society (New York, NY, 1973), Page 50-51/Figure 23
• Molly Aitken, The Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 239, fig. 5.32

Exhibition History

• From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Painting from the Punjab and Rajasthan, 17th through 19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/1993 - 10/31/1993
• The Grace of White: Indian Paintings and Objects, 16th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/23/1994 - 09/29/1994
• The Sensuous and the Sublime: Representations of Love in the Arts of the Middle East and Southern Asia, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/07/2001 - 12/30/2001

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