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A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder
c. 1740
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Themes of punishments of hell were popular in Rajasthani ateliers, and several courts commissioned paintings depicting infernal cruelty. The dark-skinned punisher pulls a royal figure from his terrace with chains and is about to smite him with his baton. A ferocious tiger can be seen ripping another man with his claws.
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- Title: A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder
- Date Created: c. 1740
- Physical Dimensions: Page: 33.7 x 24.8 cm (13 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.); Miniature: 27.3 x 17.5 cm (10 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.162
- Medium: gum tempera and gold on paper
- Inscriptions: satarī marāī īṣaṃa pasu vāgha ḍe sunākhe chai yā hatyāsu naraka mai paḍau chai ar nāhar uve
- Fun Fact: Both sinners have turbans unraveling.
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bundi
- Credit Line: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Collection: Indian Art
- Accession Number: 2018.162
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