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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.115
Title
The month of Ashar from a Baramasa series
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1820
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/330734

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
28.6 x 19.7 cm (11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[H.C. Mehra], Calcutta (November 16, 1953); purchase by L.C. and P. Wyman, American couple; gift to Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden Street, Duxbury (1960s); purchase by Kathy Burton Jones [Norman Hurst], Hurst Gallery, 53 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge (2004); gift to Harvard Art Museum (2009).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Katherine Burton Jones
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.115
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This drawing represents Baishakh (April - May). It is one of three preparatory drawings from a set of illustrations of Baramasa poems given by Kathy Burton Jones. The poems, which appear in Devanagari script on the reverse of the drawings, describe the months of the year with a focus on the festivals that ushered in each season. On the obverse, notations in Devanagari script indicate the colors for the finished painting. Each scene centers on the romantic bond between man and woman, a metaphor for life-continuing concepts. Here a couple seated on a platform in a sylvan setting converse amiably.

Publication History

  • Stages of Depiction: Indian Drawings: 17th-19th Centuries, auct. cat., Hurst Gallery (Cambridge, 2006), pp 56, cat. 45

Exhibition History

  • Stages of Depiction: Indian Drawings: 17th-19th Centuries, Hurst Gallery, 03/18/2006 - 04/15/2006

Verification Level

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