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A Mother, Child, and Nurses
A Mother, Child, and Nurses

A Mother, Child, and Nurses

probably 17th century
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueInk, light color, and gold on paper
Dimensions15.9 x 9.8 cm (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2678
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsOn front: In Devanagari in the upper left corner: "Rani Begum.ProvenanceAbout 1910, acquired from Balak Ram Sah of Garhwal, great grandson of Mola Ram, by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947) [1]; by 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)

Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1930, Part VI, page 96.