Collection Online as of September 25, 2023

Hanuman Brings the Mountain of Healing Plants; Rama Extracts the Arrow from Lakshmana as Hanuman and a Bear Prepare to Treat Him (recto), from a Romance of Chandrabhanu and Lavanyavati of Upendra Bhanja (Indian, died 1740)

late 1700s

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Eastern India, Odisha

Gum tempera and charcoal on palm leaf

Overall: 4.8 x 40.2 cm (1 7/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1979.21.a

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

on both recto and verso in Oriya

Provenance

?–1979

(Terence McInerney, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1979–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 96

Exhibition history

Himali Singh Soin: Static Range. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (December 10, 2022-May 23, 2023) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9894/himali-singh-soin-static-range.