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A wife seeks justice or mercy

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  • Description

    This unique narrative scene depicts some local family scandal, perhaps concerning infidelity or theft, possibly in the small Hill state of Dada-Siba. In a house to the right, a husband chastises his wife, while another woman remonstrates or calls for punishment. To the left, husband and wife stand before a plinth, possibly an oath-stone or place of punishment, where the wife pleads for justice or mercy from the local ruler who will judge their case.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › India › north-west India › Punjab Hills › Himachal Pradesh › Guler (place of creation)
    Date
    1740 - 1750
    Material and technique
    gouache on paper
    Dimensions
    frame 50 x 90.1 x 1.7 cm (height x width x depth)
    painting 38 x 77.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted,
    painted
    Object type index
    visual representation › calligraphy,
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
    Accession no.
    LI118.7

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 70 on p. 164, p. 19, illus. pp. 120-121 & 165

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