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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.118
Title
Noblemen smoking hookahs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Punjab Hills
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/330738

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
24.1 x 21 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[H.C. Mehra], Calcutta (November 16, 1953); purchase by L.C. and P. Wyman, American couple; gift to Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden Street, Duxbury (1960s); purchase by Kathy Burton Jones [Norman Hurst], Hurst Gallery, 53 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge (2004); gift to Harvard Art Museum (2009).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Katherine Burton Jones
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.118
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
In this drawing, two men of rank face one another while smoking a water pipe. They are surrounded by seated and standing figures, including a servant who waves a fly whisk over the head of the figure at left

Publication History

  • Stages of Depiction: Indian Drawings: 17th-19th Centuries, auct. cat., Hurst Gallery (Cambridge, 2006), pp 45, cat. 23

Exhibition History

  • Stages of Depiction: Indian Drawings: 17th-19th Centuries, Hurst Gallery, 03/18/2006 - 04/15/2006

Verification Level

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