Lakshmana and Sita (text, recto; painting, verso); folio from an illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama (Persian translation of the Mahabharata)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2009.202.250
People: Attributed to Fazl, Indian
Title: Lakshmana and Sita (text, recto; painting, verso); folio from an illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama (Persian translation of the Mahabharata)
Other Titles: Former Title: Sita Discovered; from a Razmnama made for the Khan Khanan
Classification: Manuscripts
Work Type: manuscript folio
Date: c. 1616-1617
Places: Creation Place: South Asia, India
Period: Mughal period
Culture: Mughal
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/216948

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions: 38.5 x 23.5 cm (15 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Stuart Cary Welch (by 1983 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1983.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
Accession Year: 2009
Object Number: 2009.202.250
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Stuart Cary Welch, "Mughal and Deccani Miniature Paintings From a Private Collection", Ars Orientalis; The Arts of Islam and the East, Freer Gallery of Art / Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C., 1963), Vol. 5, 221 - 233, pp. 228-230, no. 15, fig. 16, pl.10
Stuart Cary Welch, The Art of Mughal India: Painting & Precious Objects, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1963), p. 168, no. 33, pl. 33
Milo Cleveland Beach, Rajput Painting at Bundi and Kotah, Artibus Asiae Publishers (Ascona, Switzerland, 1974), p. 8; pl. X, fig. 7
John Seyller, "Model and Copy: The Illustration of Three 'Razmnama' Manuscripts", Archives of Asian Art (1985), vol. 38, pp. 37-66, p. 64, no. 33

Exhibition History

Where Traditions Meet: Painting in India from the 15th-17th Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/05/2003 - 12/07/2003
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 10/21/2016 - 01/15/2017

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2009.202.250: Lakshmana and Sita (text, recto; painting, verso); folio from an illustrated manuscript of the Razmnama (Persian translation of the Mahabharata)