2009.202.226: Jura Geer Berah Geer, the Famous Sheep Eater
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2009.202.226
- Title
- Jura Geer Berah Geer, the Famous Sheep Eater
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Jura Geer Berah Geer the Famous Sheep Eater from Surong near Kas Gunge in the Furrakabad District at his Breakfast
Former Title: Suza Geer Berah Geer, the Famous Sheep Eater from Suroung near Shas Gunge in the Furrakabad District at his Breakfast - Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1793-1804
- Places
- Creation Place: South Asia, India, Bengal, Calcutta
- Culture
- Indian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/217279
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 33 x 53.1 cm (13 x 20 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, ink; owner's signature: James Nath. Rind
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Stuart Cary Welch (by 1983 - 2008), by descent; to his estate (2008-2009), gift; to Harvard Art Museum.
Notes:
Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1983.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
- Accession Year
- 2009
- Object Number
- 2009.202.226
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Stuart Cary Welch, Room for Wonder : Indian Painting During the British Period, 1760-1880, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts (New York, NY, 1978), p.44, fig.11
- Jeremiah Losty, The Sheep-eater of Fatehgarh, South Asian Studies (1988), vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-11, p. 5
- Mildred Archer, Company Paintings: Indian Paintings of the British Period, Victoria and Albert Museum and Mapin Publishing (London, 1992), p.82-83
Exhibition History
- Leaves From the Jungle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/17/1984 - 01/06/1985
- Poignant, Picturesque, and Berserk Northern Indian Paintings and Objects of the Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/08/1992 - 10/04/1992
- Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation: 7) Company to Crown, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2011 - 10/15/2011
Verification Level
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