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Abhisarika Nayika (The Heroine Who Goes to Meet Her Lover at an Appointed Place)

Abhisarika Nayika (The Heroine Who Goes to Meet Her Lover at an Appointed Place)

second half of the 19th century
Object PlaceKangra style, Punjab Hills, India
Medium/TechniqueInk and white priming on paper
DimensionsOverall: 22.2 x 17 cm (8 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.)
Image: 16 x 10.7 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2489
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsObverse: at top, in Devanagari: "Abhisarika". Words in Devnagari on various elements 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)