A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: holding a trident. Gouache drawing by a Bengali artist, ca. 1880 (?).

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1880
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567690i
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A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: holding a trident. Gouache drawing by a Bengali artist, ca. 1880 (?). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1880

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1 painting : gouache, with watercolour ; sheet 44.5 x 28 cm

Lettering

Lettering: handwritten word in Bengali (?) to the left of the image

Notes

This drawing is in the Kalighat style, produced in the 19th and early 20th centuries by local bazaar artists around Calcutta's great Kali temple for selling to visiting pilgrims. These bold, highly simplified folk paintings depicted Hindu deities and scenes of everyday Bengali life

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Wellcome Collection 567690i

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