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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.202.29
People
Attributed to The Kota Master, Indian
Title
Battle Scene (fragment)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
early 18th century
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kota
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/217614

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and opaque watercolor on beige laid paper; Rajput Style, Kota School
Dimensions
45.4 x 58 cm (17 7/8 x 22 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1969 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of temporary loan to Museum in 1969.

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
2009.202.29
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A large battle scene is depicted in this drawing fragment. Armored soldiers are depicted either on foot or horseback, and are carrying shields as well as different types of weapons, such as swords, bows and arrows, and matchlock guns. Large armored elephants are rendered on either side. Rajput Style, Kota School.

Publication History

  • Milo Cleveland Beach, Rajput Painting at Bundi and Kotah, Artibus Asiae Publishers (Ascona, Switzerland, 1974), p. 33; pl. LXXIII, fig. 78; pl. LXXIV, fig. 79 (detail)
  • Stuart Cary Welch, Indian Drawings and Painted Sketches , exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (Washington, D.C, 1976), pp. 90-91, no. 45
  • Stuart Cary Welch and Kim Masteller, From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2004), pp. 132-133, no. 39
  • Milo Cleveland Beach, Eberhard Fischer, and B.N. Goswamy, ed., Masters of Indian Painting, exh. cat., Artibus Asiae Publishers (Zürich, 2011), p. 460, fig. 2; p. 461, no. 22

Exhibition History

  • From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from SCWelch, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/2005 - 06/02/2005

Verification Level

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