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Noblemen smoking hookahs
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In this drawing, two men of rank face one another while smoking a water pipe. They are surrounded by seated and standing figures, including a servant who waves a fly whisk over the head of the figure at left
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[H.C. Mehra] Calcutta (November 16 1953); purchase by L.C. and P. Wyman American couple; gift to Art Complex Museum 189 Alden Street Duxbury (1960s); purchase by Kathy Burton Jones [Norman Hurst] Hurst Gallery 53 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge (2004); gift to Harvard Art Museum (2009).
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Katherine Burton Jones
Title: Noblemen smoking hookahs
Description:
In this drawing, two men of rank face one another while smoking a water pipe.
They are surrounded by seated and standing figures, including a servant who waves a fly whisk over the head of the figure at left.
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