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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.122
Title
Model drawings of three women with pricked outlines
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Bengal, Calcutta
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/330742

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink and charcoal on paper

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
2009.122
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The subject of this working sketch--a nayika being bathed by an attendant--was a popular subject in Northern India. In addition to the two central figures, another faintly drawn figure stands near the left margin. The edges of all three figures are outlined with pinpricks, indicating that they were reproduced by pouncing. The setting for the figures is suggested by the outline of a building at left and a tree tops peeking over a garden wall.

Publication History

  • Stages of Depiction: Indian Drawings: 17th-19th Centuries, auct. cat., Hurst Gallery (Cambridge, 2006), pp 42, cat. 17

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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