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Walters Ms. W.710, Single leaf of dancing girls

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Shelf mark

W.710

Manuscript

Single leaf of dancing girls

Text title

Dancing girls

Abstract

This painting, which represents a mixture of Mughal and Rajput styles, depicts two Indian girls dancing. It is attributable to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE.

Date

12th century AH / 18th CE

Origin

India

Form

Leaf

Genre

Historical

Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable

Support material

Paper

Mounted on pasteboard

Extent

Foliation: Not applicable

Dimensions

21.0 cm wide by 30.0 cm high

Layout

Image: 12.0 cm wide x 19.0 cm high

Contents:

fols. W.710a - W.710b:

Title: Dancing girls
Decoration note: Brown and gold border

Decoration:

fol. W.710a:

Title: Dancing girls
Form: Painting

fol. W.710b:

Title: Dancing girls (back)
Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara

Publisher

The Walters Art Museum

License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.