Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Drawing of a Family of Monkeys
View through Harvard Museums
A monkey sits slightly above a larger monkey and grooms it from behind. Both monkeys have dark faces, small ears, tufts of hair that frame the face, and black-tipped tails. A smaller monkey climbs the back of the one who is grooming. Another monkey sits in the distance, denoted by its body being completely shaded. Rajput style, Kota school.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1976 - 2008 ) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009 ) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.
Notes:
Object was part of temporary loan to Museum in 1976.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Stuart Cary Welch Collection Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
Title: Drawing of a Family of Monkeys
Description:
A monkey sits slightly above a larger monkey and grooms it from behind.
Both monkeys have dark faces, small ears, tufts of hair that frame the face, and black-tipped tails.
A smaller monkey climbs the back of the one who is grooming.
Another monkey sits in the distance, denoted by its body being completely shaded.
Rajput style, Kota school.
Related Results
Sleeping Peddler Robbed by Monkeys, from "Monkeys"
Sleeping Peddler Robbed by Monkeys, from "Monkeys"
Etching; first state, Monkeys...
Banksy: Monkeys
Banksy: Monkeys
Monkeys are a recurring motif in [Banksy](/artist/banksy)’s provocative and subversive street art. In the world of Banksy, monkeys can be found listening to music on their headphon...
A Family of Monkeys
A Family of Monkeys
The drawing features a family of monkeys near a river bank. From left to right: a seated monkey holds her young; a monkey bends to the river to drink; a monkey walks away from the ...
Ljungströmbåten "Zinganee" under byggnation vid Arendals båtvarv
Ljungströmbåten "Zinganee" under byggnation vid Arendals båtvarv
From left: Hjalmar Olsson and Gunnar Nestling, brother of Hjalmar and David Olsson, on the construction of the Ljungström boat Zinganee, built in a copy at Arendals Båtlap.
The bo...
Dragon in Foliage (drawing, recto); calligraphy, (verso)
Dragon in Foliage (drawing, recto); calligraphy, (verso)
This album folio has on its recto side a slightly tinted black-ink drawing of a dragon charging forward through dense foliage. It is an accomplished example of the so-called Ottoma...
Design for Berlin wool work, ca. 1836-1854, by Sarah Bland (1810-1905). Design in pen and ink on graph paper featuring a floral drawing in a triangular shape for a slipper. It has geometric borders and motifs below it. Pen and ink on graph paper.
Design for Berlin wool work, ca. 1836-1854, by Sarah Bland (1810-1905). Design in pen and ink on graph paper featuring a floral drawing in a triangular shape for a slipper. It has geometric borders and motifs below it. Pen and ink on graph paper.
Design for Berlin wool work, ca. 1836-1854, by Sarah Bland (1810-1905). Design in pen and ink on graph paper featuring a floral drawing in a triangular shape for a slipper. It has ...
Fashion design, woman's masquerade ball dress. Unknown subject, possibly related to firemen or weather forecasting. Watercolour drawing probably by Leon Sault for Charles Frederick Worth. Paris, 1860s. Watercolour drawing, a design for a theatrical or mas
Fashion design, woman's masquerade ball dress. Unknown subject, possibly related to firemen or weather forecasting. Watercolour drawing probably by Leon Sault for Charles Frederick Worth. Paris, 1860s. Watercolour drawing, a design for a theatrical or mas
Fashion design, woman's masquerade ball dress. Unknown subject, possibly related to firemen or weather forecasting. Watercolour drawing probably by Leon Sault for Charles Frederick...