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Identification and Creation Object Number

1971.126

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 People
Unknown Artist

Title
Chitrini Nayika, from a Rasikapriya Series

Classification
Paintings

Work Type
painting

Date
c. 1780

Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Himachal Pradesh,
Kangra

Culture
Indian

Physical Descriptions Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions
image: 21.4 x 14.9 cm (8 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift
of John Kenneth Galbraith

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 Accession Year
1971

Object Number
1971.126

Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Publication History 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 89/figure 49
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A
Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art
Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York,
NY, 1985), page 92/figure 100

Exhibition History 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
From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Painting from the
Punjab and Rajasthan, 17th through 19th Centuries,
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge,
09/04/1993 - 10/31/1993
The Grace of White: Indian Paintings and Objects, 16th-
19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums,

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 Cambridge, 07/23/1994 - 09/29/1994

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff

but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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