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Walters Ms. W.903, Single leaf of the Virgin and Child

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Shelf mark

W.903


Manuscript

Single leaf of the Virgin and Child


Text title
Virgin and Child

Abstract

This Mughal tinted drawing of the Virgin and Child dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The Virgin Mary is shown in a diaphanous light pink garment seated beside two baskets. She looks toward the infant Jesus, who clasps her hand. The image documents Mughal interest in themes circulated by the Jesuits and European traders. The Virgin and Child were popular subject matter under the Mughal emperors, especially Akbar and Jahangir.


Date

1008-1034 AH / 1600-1625 CE


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


Language:

No linguistic content; Not applicable


Extent

Foliation: Not applicable


Dimensions

20.2 cm wide by 30.5 cm high


Layout
  1. Image: 10.3 cm wide x 16.7 cm high

Contents:
fols. W.903a - W.903b:
  1. Title: Virgin and Child

Decoration:

fol. W.903a:

  1. W.903, fol. W.903a
  2. Title: Virgin and Child
  3. Form: Drawing

fol. W.903b:

  1. W.903, fol. W.903b
  2. Title: Virgin and Child (back)
  3. Form: Back

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

Pal, Pratapaditya, and Hiram W. Woodward. Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection. (London: Phillip Wilson, 2001), 118-119.


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.