The Dharmapala Sitabrahma

CultureTibeto-Chinese

Date18th century

MediumThangka; color on cotton, mounted on silk brocade

DimensionsImage: 26 × 16 3/4 inches (66.04 × 42.55 cm)
Mount: 48 × 25 1/2 inches (121.92 × 64.77 cm)
Framed: 57 1/8 × 33 1/4 × 5 1/2 inches (145.1 × 84.46 × 13.97 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number34-256

On View

Not on view

Collections

South and Southeast Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

No additional exhibitions known at this time.

Provenance

With Tien Shu-Kuan O Ku Chai, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, by May 10, 1934;

Purchased from Tien Shu-Kuan O Ku Chai, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.

Published References

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 397, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 278, fig. 6, (repro.).

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