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A pensive woman smoking a waterpipe India

December 31, 1774

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Shah Alam II 1759–1806
A pensive woman smoking a waterpipe India
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A pensive woman smoking a waterpipe India ca. 1775-1800 leaf: 415 x 295 mm; image: 181 x 101 mm Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911. MS M.458.16r
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Ismail Mazari
Very good information.
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