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Dara Shikoh visits with ascetics

mid-18th century
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and light wash on paper
DimensionsHeight x width: 18 × 14 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession number15.89
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsInscription in front: Two Persian identifying inscriptions below the figures, possibly added later.
ProvenanceBy 1915, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)
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