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Rama Sends a Captured Spy back to Ravana

Rama Sends a Captured Spy back to Ravana

(Indian, about 1700–1760)
about 1725
Object PlaceGuler, Punjab Hills, India
Medium/TechniqueOpaque watercolor and gold on paper
DimensionsOverall: 61.5 x 83.6 cm (24 3/16 x 32 15/16 in.)
Image: 56.7 x 80.3 cm (22 5/16 x 31 5/8 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2746
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ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsSanskrit text on reverse.
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)