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
Krishna and Balarama standing beneath a tree; Krishna playing on his flute, Balarama holding a horn.. Artist(s): Becaram Das Pande (fl. 1855-65)
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Krishna and Balarama standing beneath a tree; Krishna playing on his flute, Balarama holding a horn. Lithographed in Bengali characters: ‘sri becaram das ...’ Lithographed outline.
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...