Muharram festival figure; Buraq with a ta'ziyah on its back.
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Muharram festival figure; Buraq with a ‘ta’ziyah’ on its back. Note: Buraq was the winged human-headed horse that carried Muhammad to Paradise. The ‘ta’ziyahs’ which are carried in the Muharram procession are bamboo and paper constructions representing the tombs of Hasan and Husain, the grands...
Add.Or.1874, Add.Or.1879-1882 Five paintings illustrating: (a) two religious subjects (b) two scenes of current Calcutta life (c) a proverb. By patuas ...
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Add.Or.1874, Add.Or.1879-1882 Five paintings illustrating: (a) two religious subjects (b) two scenes of current Calcutta life (c) a proverb. By patuas, Kalighat, c.1880. Water-colour; all except 1874 and 1881 within black borders; varying sizes. Presented by the Christian Literature Society...
The sheep lover: a courtesan holding a rose in her right hand and leading a sheep with a human head.
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The sheep lover: a courtesan holding a rose in her right hand and leading a sheep with a human head. Note: Compare Add.Or.3364. For ‘the sheep husband’, a phrase employed at Bengali weddings for taunting or teasing the bridegroom, but perhaps also used for satirizing female domination, see W.G...
Bengali gallant seated on a chair playing a ‘tambura.’ Published: Jain, Jyotindra, 'Kalighat Painting, Images of a Changing World', Mapin Publishing, 1999, fig 107, p. 113