Strange Happenings on a Terrace | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2009.202.9
People: Attributed to Nihal Chand, Indian
Title: Strange Happenings on a Terrace
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Strange Happenings on a Terrace ( Tete a Tete a Tete)
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1740
Places: Creation Place: South Asia, India, Rajasthan, Kishangarh
Culture: Indian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/218095

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Gray-black ink, watercolor and gold over charcoal on beige paper
Dimensions: 13 x 20 cm (5 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Stuart Cary Welch (by 1973 - 2008,) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009,) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.

Notes:
Object was part of temporary loan to Museum in 1973.

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: 2009.202.9
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Stuart Cary Welch, Indian Drawings and Painted Sketches , exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (Washington, D.C, 1976), p. 118, no. 66
Stuart Cary Welch, "A Matter of Empathy: Comical Indian Pictures", Asian Art & Culture, ed. Karen Sagstetter, Oxford University Press (UK) (New York, NY, Fall/Winter 1994), vol. 7, no. 1, p. 98, fig. 17
Navina Haidar, "Satire and Humor in Kishangarh Painting", Court Painting in Rajasthan, ed. Andrew Topsfield, Marg Publications (Mumbai, 2000), p. 87 - 88, fig. 8
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. 192-193, no. 67

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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2009.202.9: Strange Happenings on a Terrace