- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2009.202.15
- People
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Unknown Artist
- Title
- Woman Nursing a Baby (Pounce)
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/217787
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Ink and opaque watercolor on paper, with chalk rubbing; Rajput Style
- Dimensions
- 27.3 x 21 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Provenance
- 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
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- 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
- 2009.202.15
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- A seated woman, facing left, nurses her small child. Her right hand gently supports the back of her child’s neck, while her right knee supports her child from behind. She wears a long shawl that covers her long, dark hair and flows past her back, large earrings, anklets, bracelets, necklaces and a nose ring. Small holes can be found outlining the figures. The holes represent a transferring technique known as pounce. Powder, such as graphite or chalk, is passed through the holes onto a clean working surface to give an exact copy of the image that is to be copied. Rajput Style.
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