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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.202.226
Title
Jura Geer Berah Geer, the Famous Sheep Eater
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Jura Geer Berah Geer the Famous Sheep Eater from Surong near Kas Gunge in the Furrakabad District at his Breakfast
Former Title: Suza Geer Berah Geer, the Famous Sheep Eater from Suroung near Shas Gunge in the Furrakabad District at his Breakfast
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1793-1804
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Bengal, Calcutta
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217279

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
33 x 53.1 cm (13 x 20 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, ink; owner's signature: James Nath. Rind

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1983 - 2008), by descent; to his estate (2008-2009), gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1983.

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
2009.202.226
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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.44, fig.11
  • Jeremiah Losty, The Sheep-eater of Fatehgarh, South Asian Studies (1988), vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-11, p. 5
  • Mildred Archer, Company Paintings: Indian Paintings of the British Period, Victoria and Albert Museum and Mapin Publishing (London, 1992), p.82-83

Exhibition History

  • Leaves From the Jungle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/17/1984 - 01/06/1985
  • Poignant, Picturesque, and Berserk Northern Indian Paintings and Objects of the Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/08/1992 - 10/04/1992
  • Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation: 7) Company to Crown, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2011 - 10/15/2011

Verification Level

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