2009.202.29: Battle Scene (fragment)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.202.29

People

Attributed to The Kota Master, Indian

Title

Battle Scene (fragment)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

early 18th century

Places

Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kota

Culture

Indian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/217614

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and opaque watercolor on beige laid paper; Rajput Style, Kota School

Dimensions

45.4 x 58 cm (17 7/8 x 22 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Stuart Cary Welch (by 1969 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of temporary loan to Museum in 1969.

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

2009.202.29

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

A large battle scene is depicted in this drawing fragment. Armored soldiers are depicted either on foot or horseback, and are carrying shields as well as different types of weapons, such as swords, bows and arrows, and matchlock guns. Large armored elephants are rendered on either side. Rajput Style, Kota School.

Publication History

• Milo Cleveland Beach, Rajput Painting at Bundi and Kotah, Artibus Asiae Publishers (Ascona, Switzerland, 1974), p. 33; pl. LXXIII, fig. 78; pl. LXXIV, fig. 79 (detail)
• Stuart Cary Welch, Indian Drawings and Painted Sketches , exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (Washington, D.C, 1976), pp. 90-91, no. 45
• 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. 132-133, no. 39
• Milo Cleveland Beach, Eberhard Fischer, and B.N. Goswamy, ed., Masters of Indian Painting, exh. cat., Artibus Asiae Publishers (Zürich, 2011), p. 460, fig. 2; p. 461, no. 22

Exhibition History

• 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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