{
"data": {
"id": 113072,
"accession_number": "1932.119.12.a",
"share_license_status": "CC0",
"tombstone": "Transfer of the Embryo of Mahavira, Folio 12 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra, c. 1475\u20131500. Western India, Gujarat. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 12.5 x 25.7 cm (4 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1932.119.12.a",
"current_location": null,
"title": "Transfer of the Embryo of Mahavira, Folio 12 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra",
"creation_date": "c. 1475\u20131500",
"creation_date_earliest": 1470,
"creation_date_latest": 1505,
"artists_tags": [],
"culture": [
"Western India, Gujarat"
],
"technique": "Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper",
"support_materials": [],
"department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
"collection": "Indian Art",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Overall: 12.5 x 25.7 cm (4 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)",
"dimensions": {
"overall": {
"height": 0.125,
"height_inch": 4,
"height_inch_fraction": 0.9375,
"width": 0.257,
"width_inch": 10,
"width_inch_fraction": 0.125
}
},
"state_of_the_work": null,
"edition_of_the_work": null,
"copyright": null,
"inscriptions": [
{
"inscription": "[[upper right]] garbh\u0101pah\u0101ra/garbhasa\u1e43vara\u1e47a",
"inscription_translation": "Transfer of the embryo",
"inscription_remark": null,
"sortorder": null
}
],
"exhibitions": {
"current": [
{
"id": 350154,
"title": "Paintings of Bikaner \u2013 Indian Gallery 242 Rotation",
"description": "Paintings of Bikaner \u2013 Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2019-April 5, 2020).",
"opening_date": "2019-11-07T05:00:00"
}
],
"legacy": []
},
"provenance": [
{
"description": "(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "?\u20131932",
"sortorder": 1
},
{
"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
"citations": [],
"footnotes": null,
"date": "1932\u2013",
"sortorder": 2
}
],
"find_spot": null,
"related_works": [],
"former_accession_numbers": [
"1932.119.5"
],
"did_you_know": null,
"early_education_description": null,
"artlens_description": null,
"description": "The tiny captions written in Sanskrit to the right of the painting identify the subject of this scene: \u201cabduction of the embryo\u201d and \u201ctransfer of the embryo.\u201d The embryo is the unborn founder of the Jain religion.
In this miraculous episode, a goat-headed divinity who presides over miscarriage and childbirth gently takes the embryo in his cupped hands away from the reclining Brahmin lady in the scene above. Below, he carries it to a queen, who will be the birth mother.",
"external_resources": {
"wikidata": [
"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116973422"
],
"internet_archive": [
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1932.119.5-transfer-of-the-embr",
"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1932.119.12.a-transfer-of-the-embr"
]
},
"citations": [],
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.119.12.a",
"images": {
"annotation": null,
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_web.jpg",
"width": "900",
"height": "401",
"filesize": "286720",
"filename": "1932.119.12.a_web.jpg"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "1516",
"filesize": "2768610",
"filename": "1932.119.12.a_print.jpg"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_full.tif",
"width": "13844",
"height": "6174",
"filesize": "256445494",
"filename": "1932.119.12.a_full.tif"
}
},
"alternate_images": [
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt0_web.jpg",
"width": "599",
"height": "900",
"filesize": "413285"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt0_print.jpg",
"width": "2264",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4767544"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt0_full.tif",
"width": "7495",
"height": "11256",
"filesize": "253119902"
},
"date_created": "2021-09-09T10:21:30",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt1_web.jpg",
"width": "900",
"height": "400",
"filesize": "289905"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt1_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "1512",
"filesize": "2491343"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt1_full.tif",
"width": "12889",
"height": "5733",
"filesize": "221705352"
},
"date_created": "2019-10-31T11:58:58",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt2_web.jpg",
"width": "900",
"height": "400",
"filesize": "301266"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt2_print.jpg",
"width": "3400",
"height": "1512",
"filesize": "2736033"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt2_full.tif",
"width": "12220",
"height": "5436",
"filesize": "199312392"
},
"date_created": "2019-10-31T11:26:28",
"annotation": ""
},
{
"web": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt3_web.jpg",
"width": "699",
"height": "900",
"filesize": "469144"
},
"print": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt3_print.jpg",
"width": "2640",
"height": "3400",
"filesize": "4796700"
},
"full": {
"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.12.a/1932.119.12.a_alt3_full.tif",
"width": "8863",
"height": "11414",
"filesize": "303519416"
},
"date_created": "2019-10-31T11:42:12",
"annotation": ""
}
],
"creditline": "Edward L. Whittemore Fund",
"image_credit": null,
"sketchfab_id": null,
"sketchfab_url": null,
"gallery_donor_text": null,
"athena_id": 113072,
"creators": [],
"legal_status": "accessioned",
"accession_date": "1932-04-26T00:00:00",
"sortable_date": 1470,
"date_added_to_oa": null,
"date_text": "c. 1475\u20131500",
"collapse_artists": false,
"on_loan": false,
"recently_acquired": false,
"record_type": "part",
"conservation_statement": null,
"has_conservation_images": false,
"cover_accession_number": "1932.119",
"is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
"impression": null,
"alternate_titles": [
"Kalpa-sutra Manuscript with 24 Miniatures: Harinegamesin Moves the Embryo",
"Transfer of the Embryo of Mahavira, from a Kalpa-sutra"
],
"is_highlight": false,
"updated_at": "2026-05-29 05:57:26.263000"
}
}