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Birth of a royal infant

about 1580
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueOpaque watercolor and gold on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 39 × 30.5 cm (15 3/8 × 12 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.3112
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)
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