Seated Jain Figure

Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...

Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of white wove paper, each 34.7 x 27.1 cm. Pages numbered at l.l. of verso in graphite. Drawings i...

Sketchbook with beige-fabric-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of off-white wove paper, 37 x 31.2 cm. Pages numbered in graphite at l.l. of verso. Drawings mostl...

The recto and verso sides of this folio feature lines of prose written in in the Prakrit language in Devanagari script and black ink. The blank square at the center of the page con...

Formerly thought to represent Parsvanatha, Jainism’s twenty-third Tirthankara, this sculpture has now been identified as Suparsvanatha, Jainism’s seventh Tirthankara. According to ...

At the center of the painting is a large gold chair. Its legs are delicately carved and its sides feature oval-shaped cartouches with flowering plants. It is upholstered in white f...

Woman seated on a chair or throne, her head covered and her hands resting on her knees. Her long garment now appears white, with a red stripe running down the center; traces of fol...

The central figure in this Tibetan Buddhist painting, or thangka, is Bhaisajyaguru—the buddha of healing and medicine known more commonly as the Medicine Buddha. Seated on an elabo...