- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1969.173
- People
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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Nayika wringing her hair after a bath
- Classification
- Albums
- Work Type
- album folio
- Date
- 17th century
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India
- Period
- Mughal period
- Culture
- Mughal
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216404
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 17.15 x 10.16 cm (6 3/4 x 4 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Eric Schroeder
- Accession Year
- 1969
- Object Number
- 1969.173
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Set within large cream colored, gold-flecked borders is a depiction of a young female. Her body faces to the left while she turns her head to look back. Her long hair cascades down the length of her back, nearly hitting her upper thigh. With both hands she wrings a part of her hair in front of her. Water pours from the ends. Her wrists bear gold cuffs with pearls. Her left arm has a gold armlet. Her body is naked underneath a white translucent robe with gold trim at the bottom. She wears strands of pearls and gold beads around her neck and a necklace with a gold pendant. The top of her ear has a red ornament and she wears pearl earrings. Her nose is decorated with a small pearl nose ring. Her feet are bare and she wears gold anklets. She stands in a green landscape. Softly curving, willow-tree-like branches accentuate the top and right side of the depiction.
- Exhibition History
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ReVisions, Indian Artists Engaging Traditions , Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 04/04/2009 - 01/10/2010
Women in South Asian Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/26/2017 - 01/07/2018
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