The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own collection record for "Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs," a painting in ink and opaque watercolor on cloth from India, Rajasthan, dated circa 1800. The record gives the accession number 57.70.6, a gift of Edward M. Bratter in 1957, overall dimensions of 51 1/4 by 45 3/4 inches, the department as Asian Art, the classification as Paintings, and lists the work as public domain with the museum's own photograph.
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The holding museum's own catalogue record for the accessioned object, the strongest available record for its title, medium, dimensions, date, culture and accession number, corroborated by the Wikipedia article on Hanuman narrating the same episode and naming this composition the standard iconographic type for it. Citation
PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37960
Source TypeMuseum
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This source names Rajasthan directly: "opaque watercolor on cloth from India, Rajasthan, dated circa 1800."
Source Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Claims Backed By This Source (18 claims)
This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 12 claims: 5 well-attested, 6 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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