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Portrait of Charles, Lord Metcalfe
Portrait of Charles, Lord Metcalfe

Portrait of Charles, Lord Metcalfe

About 1820
Object PlaceJaipur, Rajasthan, Northern India
Medium/TechniqueInk and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions16 x 10.5 cm (6 5/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2999b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
InscriptionsObverse, at top, in Devanagari: inscription identifies subject: "Metcalfe."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)