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Vipralabdha Nayika (The Heroine Who has Awaited Her Lover in Vain)

second half 19th century
Object PlaceKangra style, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and white priming on paper
DimensionsOverall: 22.4 x 17 cm (8 13/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Image: 16 x 10 cm (6 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2488
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsObverse: on top, in Devnagari, Vipralabdha. Words in Devnagari on various parts of the painting.
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)