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Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra Smoking a Huqqa

about 1810
Object PlaceKangra, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and opaque watercolor on paper
DimensionsOverall: 21.7 x 16 cm (8 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Image: 21.7 x 16 cm (8 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2702
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsObverse: on top, in Devnagari, Shri Raja Sansar Chand. Reverse: seal of Lahore Museum, inscription in Persian, Raja sansar Chand of Kotah? in English.
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)
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