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Two Maids in a Palace
Two Maids in a Palace

Two Maids in a Palace

18th century
Object PlaceNorthern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and light color on paper
Dimensions18.2 x 12.9 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2677
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsOn front: brief scribbled Hindi notation at bottom.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 95.