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A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder

Date: c. 1740
Medium: gum tempera and gold on paper
Culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Bundi
Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

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. Both sinners have turbans unraveling.

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