1999.286: Five Views of an Elephant Combat
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.286
- People
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Attributed to Shaykh Taju, Indian
- Title
- Five Views of an Elephant Combat
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1730
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kota
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/217462
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black and red-brown inks over charcoal underdrawing on beige laid paper
- Dimensions
- 51.3 x 56.7 cm (20 3/16 x 22 5/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.286
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Howard Hodgkin and Terence McInerney, Indian Drawing : An Exhibition Chosen by Howard Hodgkin, exh. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1983), Figure 29
- Stuart Cary Welch and Kim Masteller, From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2004), pp. 148-149, no. 48
- Christine Temin, Fogg Shows Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 2005), p. 5
- Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 111
Exhibition History
- Indian and Persian Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/25/1987 - 06/21/1987
- Linear Graces ... and Disgraces: Part I, Drawings from the Courts of Persia, Turkey, and India, 15th-19th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/15/1994 - 12/11/1994
- 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
- From Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from SCWelch, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/2005 - 06/02/2005
Subjects and Contexts
- Collection Highlights
- Google Art Project
Verification Level
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