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Object Number

1999.286

People

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

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.)

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

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 (U.S.) (New Haven, 2004), p 148 - 149/ cat 48

Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2008), p. 111

Christine Temin, Fogg Shows Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, Spring 2005), p. 5

Indian and Persian Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/25/1987 - 06/21/1987

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

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