Add.Or.3343-3345 Three paintings depicting religious subjects. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1865. Water-colour with silver details; varying sizes. Purchas ...
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Add.Or.3343-3345 Three paintings depicting religious subjects. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1865. Water-colour with silver details; varying sizes. Purchased by W.G. Archer, London 1950. Purchased 1974. Note: In style similar to Add.Or.891-907 and 3333-42 and of about the same date.
The Tarakeshwar murder: the Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple.
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The Mahant sees Elokesi at the Tarakesvar temple. The Mahant (high priest of the Siva temple, Tarakesvar) holds a ‘nargila’ pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him stand three women - Elokesi, the young wife of the...
Add.Or.3346-3347 Two paintings depicting episodes from the Tarakesvar murder. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1875. Water-colour with silver details; varying ...
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Add.Or.3346-3347 Two paintings depicting episodes from the Tarakesvar murder. By a patua, Kalighat, c.1875. Water-colour with silver details; varying sizes.
The Mahant fans Elokeshi who sits on a chair holding a rose.
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The Mahant fans Elokesi who sits on a chair holding a rose while the Mahant dressed only in a ‘dhoti’ stands beside her fanning her with a punkah. 458 by 286 mm. Purchased by W.G. Archer in London, 1955. Purchased 1974. Note: Following her first visit to the Tarakesvar shrine, Elokesi was pr...