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Artist
Unknown Indian
CultureIndian
Titles
- A Keeper Trying To Restrain an Elephant [recto]
- Two Studies of a Tiger [verso]
Datec. 1570–1580
MediumPainting on paper, laid down on green album page [recto], laid down on brown album page [verso]
DimensionsSheet (.A, Elephant): 8 1/4 × 5 15/16 in. (21 × 15.1 cm)
Sheet (.B, Tiger): 8 9/16 × 6 in. (21.7 × 15.2 cm)
Mount: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm)
Sheet (.B, Tiger): 8 9/16 × 6 in. (21.7 × 15.2 cm)
Mount: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, the Friends of Asian Art Fund, Sushila and Durga Agrawal, Barbara E. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Likhari, Mr. and Mrs. Pershant Mehta, Mr. and Mrs. J. Hugh Roff, Jr., and Dr. Ellen R. Gritz and Mr. Milton D. Rosenau, Jr., and by The Green Tree Fund in honor of Christine Starkman
Object number2014.229.A,.B
Not on view
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Department
Asian ArtObject Type
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Side .B, upper left corner, handwritten in black ink: 12 14(?). 29
Side .B, handwritten: 93(?) in red ink and 32(?) with calligraphy in black ink
Side .B, bottom right, handwritten calligraphy in black ink
Side .B, handwritten: 93(?) in red ink and 32(?) with calligraphy in black ink
Side .B, bottom right, handwritten calligraphy in black ink
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