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- Title:
Fakir's Rock at Sultanganj, on the Ganges River
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 3/8 × 29 7/8 inches (54.3 × 75.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, lower center: "N. 17 - Fakirs Rock in the Ganges near Sultan ganji Bakar"; in graphite, lower right: "<21>"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6141
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Associated Places:
- Ganges
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9225
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