- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1995.64
- People
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Unknown Artist
- Title
- The Goddess Durga Battles Demons, folio from a manuscript of the Durgasaptashati (Seven Hundred Couplets in Praise of Durga)
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Durgasaptashati
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- c. 1500
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Western India
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/311092
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 8.8 x 17.5 cm (3 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift in gratitude to John Coolidge, Gift of Leslie Cheek, Jr., Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg, Louise Haskell Daly, Alpheus Hyatt, Richard Norton Memorial Funds and through the generosity of Albert H. Gordon and Emily Rauh Pulitzer; formerly in the collection of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.64
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Stuart Cary Welch and Milo Cleveland Beach, Gods, Thrones, and Peacocks Northern Indian Painting from Two Traditions, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1965), page 57/figure 1
Elizabeth Finch, ed., Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, exh. cat., The Drawing Center (New York, NY, 1997), page 12
- Exhibition History
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India: From Tribe to Court, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/23/1981 - 07/23/1981
Leaves From the Jungle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/17/1984 - 01/06/1985
Gods, Thrones, and Peacocks - Revisited: Northern Indian Miniatures from two Traditions, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/31/1990 - 06/10/1990
Indian Harvest: Part 1, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/30/1995 - 01/21/1996
Rajasthani Miniatures: The Welch Collection at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, The Drawing Center, New York, 04/16/1997 - 06/07/1997
A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/08/2000 - 09/03/2000
Where Traditions Meet: Painting in India from the 15th-17th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/05/2003 - 12/07/2003
Women in South Asian Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/26/2017 - 01/07/2018
- Subjects and Contexts
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Collection Highlights
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