Kalighat Painting

Object Number:

29-225-8

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Indian

Provenience:

India
Calcutta

Date Made:

19th Century

Early Date:

1800

Late Date:

1899

Section:

Asian

Materials:

Paper
Pigment

Technique:

Painted

Iconography:

Lobster
Cat

Description:

Kalighat painting on brown paper. Image of stylized cat holding a lobster in its mouth. Folk art style with thin, bright pigments loosely applied. Some silver paint.

Credit Line:

Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville

Bibliography:

[Article] Ghosh, Pika. 2000. Kalighat Paintings from Nineteenth Century Calcutta in Maxwell Sommerville’s ‘Ethnological East Indian Collection’. Expedition. 42 (3) : Page/Fig./Plate: Fig. 4

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