id: 539812 accession number: 1932.119.37.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.119.37.b updated: 2024-08-08 15:19:16.621000 Mahavira's Initiation Tonsure, Folio 37 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra, c. 1475–1500. Western India, Gujarat, last quarter of the 15th century. 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 1932.119.37.b title: Mahavira's Initiation Tonsure, Folio 37 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1475–1500 creation date earliest: 1470 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Edward L. Whittemore Fund copyright: --- culture: Western India, Gujarat, last quarter of the 15th century technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 25.7 cm (4 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: [[upper left]] Śrī Ma* dīkśā translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 245): April 28, 2015 - November 2, 2015.', 'opening_date': '2015-04-28T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1932 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1932– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hollis, Howard C. "A Jaina Manuscript." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 21, no. 2 (1934): 19–21. page number: Mentioned: pp. 19–21; Reproduced: [unpaginated] url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137600 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.37.b/1932.119.37.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.37.b/1932.119.37.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.37.b/1932.119.37.b_full.tif