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Portrait of a Maulvi
Portrait of a Maulvi

Portrait of a Maulvi

early 16th century
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and light wash on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 12.3 × 8 cm (4 13/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2697
On View
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ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsInscription in front: In Hindi, an identifying inscription, now mostly illegible except for last words: "Sunna Nama."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)