2009.202.201: Scene from the "Ramayana"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.202.201

Title

Scene from the "Ramayana"

Other Titles

Former Title: Palm Leaf with Drawings on Both Sides

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

early 19th century

Places

Creation Place: South Asia, India, Orissa, Puri

Culture

Indian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/217476

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink and opaque watercolor on palm leaf

Dimensions

5 x 40.5 cm (1 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Stuart Cary Welch (by 1973 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of temporary loan to Museum in 1973.

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

2009.202.201

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Stuart Cary Welch, Indian Drawings and Painted Sketches , exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (Washington, D.C, 1976), Page 30-31/Figure 4

Exhibition History

• India: From Tribe to Court, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/23/1981 - 07/23/1981
• Precisely to the Point, Daggers and Drawings from Persia and India: 15th-19th century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/30/1992 - 07/26/1992
• The Art of Storytelling: Five Tales from Asia, Then and Now, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, 09/08/2015 - 12/13/2015

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