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The Lady and the Buck
The Lady and the Buck

The Lady and the Buck

Former TitleLady with Deer
CulturePahari
Dateca. 1800-1825
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 6 5/8 × 4 3/16 inches (16.83 × 10.64 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 6 3/8 inches (23.81 × 16.19 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-310
On View
Not on view
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Exhibition History

Exhibition for the Committee for UNICEF, Topeka, Kansas, September 24-October 31, 1967, no cat.

Provenance
Art Market, Lahore (in modern-day Pakistan), 1935 [1];

Purchased on the Lahore art market, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

NOTES:

[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01/01 Director's Office Records, Paul Gardner, box 4, folder 41, 1935 Sickman purchases en route. Before Laurence Sickman assumed his role as Curator of Asian Art in June 1935, he traveled through South Asia and the Middle East on his way from China to the U.S. This is one of two objects he purchased in Lahore during this trip.


Published References

Robert B. Oxnam, Focus on Asian Studies, City Life and Village Life (New York: The Asia Society, 1984), 52, (repro.).

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